Rocco Staino

Mteto Maphoyi (Mthetho Mapoyi), a kid from a small Xhosa township in South Africa's Western Cape and a subject of the 2011 documentary, The Creators, was recently given a Big Apple welcome. The film tells the stories of various artists who struggle with the affects of living in...

The Society of Illustrators which houses the Museum of American Illustration was recently named one of the...

The release of the seventh volume in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid Series Love is in the Air will definitely be a global event when it is released in November. While at the Bologna Children's Book Fair Kenney announced that following the Nov. 13 U.S. release by his American publisher, Amulet,...

Ambassadors, attorneys and authors were all part of yesterday's (March 7th) the third annual World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). The event that was the brainchild of LitWorld, a nonprofit literacy organization encourages the power of words in creating a community. Events celebrating the day occurred worldwide...

The release of the film, The Lorax, based on the children's book by Dr. Seuss has stirred a bit of a controversy. The book, published in 1971, has long been considered a fable about the plight of the environment as it is faced with industrial greed. However, it seems that...

April 14th marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Over the last century the disaster has spawned numerous books from Colonel Archibald Gracie's Titanic: A Survivor's Story to Walter Lord's A Night to Remember. During this commemoration there is also a wealth of books both fiction and...

These days, to youth librarians, Harry Potter, Anne of Green Gables and Hop on Pop are not just kid's book titles but also cocktails. The American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services Association has announced on its...

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, an animated film by Moonbot Studios, is a love letter to books and its curative powers. In addition to books, the Louisiana-based children's author and filmmaker, William Joyce, was inspired by Hurricane Katrina,...

Decorated store windows rank right up there with the tree in Rockefeller Center as must-dos during this holiday season. So after viewing Barneys, Saks and Lord & Taylor in midtown be sure to head downtown to SoHo to catch the window...

With the aid of technology, students from around the country were able to join kids from New York City area schools in a Teen News Conference with the five finalists for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature. Franny Billingsley, Chime (Dial); Debby Dahl Edwardson, My Name Is Not...

"It's more fun to play the Colorforms way," and kids and adults have been playing with those vinyl geometric shapes for six decades. November 13th marks the official 60th anniversary of the toy and I would not be surprised if, on that day,...

Just a year after the New York Times declared, "Picture Books No Longer A Staple for Children" a new celebration has been born, Picture Book Month! Storyteller Dianne de Las Casas decided it was time to celebrate picture...

Just in time for the holidays, a parody on Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon (HarperCollins, 1947) will be hitting the bookstores on October 27th. Goodnight iPad written under the pen name Ann Droyd is a good humored look at the 21st Century's over teched lives that we lead....

To celebrate the launch of his new book, Jarrett J. Krosoczka is going to read his story, but Krosoczka storytime will be viral. Each hour on the hour from 9 am to 5pm on Tuesday, October 11th, the author will read his new book, his first in four years, Ollie...

Diane Ravitch, educational historian and professor of education at New York University, and Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, debated the pros and cons of charter and public school education on the third day of NBC News' Education Nation. NBC, for the second year, hosted 350...

The annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment, Banned Book Week is September 24th -- October 1st. Each year the list of frequently challenged books is highlighted and this year the American Library Association is encouraging people to...

Library Journal recently reported on the opening of "America's Littlest Library" in the Town of Clinton. The town, an urban weekenders' retreat, is half way between New York City and Albany, NY. The library has taken up residence in a refurbished K8...

From now until September 15th the public is invited to visit Sciame Construction in Lower Manhattan to view the Pen & Ink Exhibition of John Coburn's Healing Hearts. In the early days after Sept. 11, the Toronto based artist found himself drawn to New York City, a city whose architecture...

Preppy pupils Hudson and River (no not Hudson River) along with their friends Willow, Jasper, Oliver and others are back under the guise of children's literature to help Ralph Lauren sell back-to-school wardrobes.

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Earlier this summer it was reported by the Huffington Post and The Daily Mail that Sarah Ferguson's proposed book about a little peach tree that survives the tragedy of September 11th had been rejected by publishers as being offensive.

Don't worry, here are ten books that...