Grown-ups enjoy children’s literature; it is only those who refuse to grow up, like Peter Pan, who think that they are too grown up for it. Hand-painted watercolor illustration of four characters from ...

Before this column dives into 2025 publications and the new spring list of children’s books, here’s a sampling of some worthwhile 2024 picture books that didn’t make it into the column last year but, ...

Indulge your love of the American frontier.

There is a disjunction at the heart of children’s literature. It is that the placing of words and brushstrokes, the arranging of every publishing deal and the selling and buying of every book, is ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010 ...

On January 26, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, digital media, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, ...