Among the heroes of this autumn’s best kids books are a sleepy bear, a water-loving rabbit and a pair of hyper-competitive ...

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy, by Dame Lynley Dodd. An ‘oldie’ but an absolute ‘goodie’, this iconic and bestselling book has stood the test of time for several reasons: characterful characters ...

No list of classic autumn books is complete without Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, widely regarded as one of ...

Those innocent bedtime stories you lovingly read aloud night after night contained sophisticated adult themes that sailed right over young heads but spoke directly to your parental experiences and ...

The characters from four children’s picture books are coming to the stage in Bath this fall. Local nonprofit Midcoast ...

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.

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

As off-season travel becomes more popular, October is an increasingly attractive month for big family adventures.

Autumn is often called the perfect season for reading in South Korea. This year, the tradition took on a historic scale.

As time passed, Haidt’s book was picked apart, with one psychologist in the journal Nature explaining that, rather than phone ...

Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...

I carefully explained he needed to put it to his ear and listen, or we could lay it down and listen and talk on speaker. The reason for this call was the revival of a treasure of the 1960s New York ...