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Ten years ago readers were introduced to a persnickety, cunning, mischievous housecat known simply as Bad Kitty. It all started with Bad Kitty (Roaring Brook Press, 2005), an alphabet picture [...]

Congressman John Lewis is a legislator who has earned the respect of colleagues from both sides of the aisle. Lewis grew up as the son of a sharecropper, but he had no intention of following in [...]

“I’ve always loved books. I remember, even before I was able to read, tracing a lot of Richard Scarry drawings as a child. I particularly remember tracing a pig with a sausage, and only now [...]

There are few American icons more popular and recognized than apple pie, baseball, and Fonzie. That’s right—Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli—“The Fonz” from the television show Happy Days was ranked by [...]

Rarely are the highest honors in children’s literature for illustration and for text bestowed on the same person. Most recipients are awarded either the Caldecott or the Newbery Medal for a book [...]

Having illustrated more than 80 books for children and written nearly 20 of those, Ed Young is considered a most prolific author and illustrator. However, when one realizes that Young has also [...]

“Why are people so anxious for kids to move on from picture books?” asks Bob Shea, picture book author and illustrator. “When my son was in Kindergarten, there was a little girl in his class who [...]

“Avid is a mild term for how I read as a child, and writing came a close second,” says Karen Cushman, award-winning author of historical fiction. “I cannot remember not reading; the first formal [...]