Whatever age it is—whatever age we are—picture-book-wise we’re in the palace ... seemingly improvised sepia line.” We see that line at work here in Caldecott’s lively and comical ...

A picture book should feel organic ... My first-draft opening line looked like this: In fact, my Brazilian source text has João saying something closer to “alone with myself.” ...

I read over fifty fiction picture books this month and chose my top fourteen to share with you. (Some are from April, but most are from May.) Incidentally, this month’s selection of picture ...

New York-based kidlit superstar’s gentle but profound picture books that resonate with readers of all ages. A visual artist by trade, Jeffers first burst onto the publishing scene in 2004 with ...

By excluding what readers might otherwise assume to be a main ingredient, the wordless picture book heightens the flavors ... (2011), in which thick, squiggly lines of ink, watercolor, and gouache ...

Poet and author Amanda Gorman offers a key line in her picture book for young readers called "Girls On The Rise" that seems to sum up the focus of her inspirational story. When one girl is on the ...

Here are the 10 best picture books of 2024…so far. You need picture books in your life, whether you have kids or your relatives have kids or your friends have kids or a kid might be brought to ...