A-list celebrities, including Oscar winners and athletes, have let their imaginations run wild by creating children's books with stories that provide powerful messages for children and adults. Many of ...

(RNS) — Since childhood, I’ve been a regular target of ignorance and bigotry. My experience contributed to my becoming a scholar of history and religion, but more than that, it has given me a clearer ...

Children’s authors and educators are up in arms after words by National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Mac Barnett, ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Shireen Eddleblute, who left a career in investments in 2024 to launch a children's book series on financial literacy. Business ...

March 8, 2024 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Welcome to “How I Became,” the Lifehacker series where I ask real people how they really got their jobs. This week ...

Derrick Barnes felt there wasn't wide enough representation of Black people in the books he read as a kid. The Kansas City native's new picture book, “I Got You,” is his latest effort to write ...

I have been an editor and author of children’s and young adult books for over 20 years. I’ve taught writing for children and young adult fiction to hardworking and serious emerging writers since 2010.

Young readers deserve our best work. The Writing for Children and Young Adults concentration is part of The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, founded in 1996. Students study with our ...

What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...

Wollstonecraft wrote across genres – from fiction, travel and children’s books to literary criticism, translations and political essays. Tracing this wide-ranging authorship reveals that her lifelong ...