The winners of the Newbery and Caldecott medals were announced this week. Here’s what to know about the books — and the prestigious awards.

As the fall season starts the air gets cooler and the leaves change colors, there’s nothing better than curling up with your kids and reading together. Rainy fall days, apple cider, pumpkin patches, ...

We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published.

Back when I first published this list in 2017, my two daughters were just 3 years and 7 months old. Now somehow I find myself the mom of an 11-year-old and an 8-year-old who have largely outgrown ...

Jenkins needed about a year to put pen to paper, but once she finally started the project, she did not have to look far for ...

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April is Arab American Heritage Month, but stories about and for Arab American children remain relatively rare. Despite the population of Arabs in the United States totaling 3.7 million people with ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Stories help normalize grief while emphasizing memory, love, and healing. Reading together supports both grieving children and the adults guiding them. Many of us have experienced the loss of a pet.