The gift they have brought to the King and Queen of Venice, who have not been able to have children, is a magical plant. If the King and Queen plant it, the Fairies say, it will blossom into a child.
You’re hearing the moving lullaby from the children’s opera, Brundibar, which was written by Hans Krása in the late 1930s and performed fifty-five times in the…
Sometimes it’s less a matter of our choosing the subjects that we write about, than it is the subjects that choose us. This is certainly…
In 1943, Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House won the Caldecott Award for the most distinguished picture book published in 1942. It is the story of…
This year, for presents, I’m giving wisdom. Not my own, mind you. I’m not at all sure how much of that I have. But rather…
They Were Strong and Good, written and illustrated by Robert Lawson, won the Caldecott Award for most distinguished American picture book in 1941. It is…
I’ve been thinking about the meaning of cheese today. Not the gouda and brie and swiss that may be in our refrigerators, but metaphoric cheese.…
In her final interview from this year’s Book Expo, Susan Raab spoke with the award-winning author/illustrator David Shannon, who’s given us such picture books about…
Holling C. Holling was a children’s author who used exciting narratives to teach nature and geography in large format picture books for children. Holling grew…
The summer is the perfect time for kids to go exploring, in search of far away places and lost worlds. And there are many recent…