Each year over 500 writers and lovers of mysteries gather in New York City for a black-tie evening to celebrate the winners of the Edgar Awards presented by the Mystery Writers of America. However, few lovers of children and young adult books realize that the awards also honors...

Malcom was a collector, Steve is political but Bob Forbes is the poet of the family. When Robert L. Forbes, one of Malcom Forbes' five children, is not busy as president of Forbes Life he has another life as a poet. He is the author of of three books of...

What better way to celebrate the opening of Major League Baseball's 2013 season, the release of bioepic film 42 and Jackie Robinson Day than reading a book with a kid. Below are some recommendations:

The film 42 will open on April 12. Set in 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison...

This collection of Passover literature for children ranges from a serious story of how Jews in hiding during the war celebrated to a humorous tale of a robot that helps with the ritual cleaning. There most certainly should be a book here you can share with your favorite child during...

As part of the kick-off for his new book Day of Doom (Scholastic), New York Times best selling author, David Baldacci introduced kids to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History via a virtual field trip. The "Decoding History" virtual field trip.

In Baldacci's book, the latest...

Students at Vassar College, a small, liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., came out in force Thursday afternoon to protest a visit from members of the Westboro Baptist Church. Vassar, or as the Kansas-based church calls it, the "Ivy League Whorehouse," has become a Westboro target because the church believes...

The 110th Annual Toy Fair was recently held in New York City. It was filled with many familiar toys from my childhood as well as a host of innovative items that one could not have imagined 10 or 20 years ago. I wanted to share some old and new items...

Authors/illustrators visitors to Sandy Hook Elementary School. Back Row: Alan Katz, Bruce Degen, Tad Hills, Katie Davis, Vincent Kirsch, Bob Shea, Meghan McCarthy. Front Row: Susan Hood, Mike Rex, Tracy Dockray, Marc Tyler Nobleman, Daniel Kirk.

Twelve children's authors and illustrators traveled to the...

Due to the efforts of a group of Brooklyn parents, when PS 118 in Brooklyn opens next September, it will welcome students to a school named in honor of Maurice Sendak. The parents rallied to work with the school administration and the New York City Department of Education...

Maurice Sendak, the famed children's book author and illustrator, who passed away on May 7th will be memorialized with a public school named in his honor. On February 8th, PS118 in Park Slope Brooklyn announced on their...

As part of its annual fundraising event, Celebration of Free Speech and Its Defenders, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) auctioned off a few mythical book covers that would be sure to raise some eyebrows. Award-winning book illustrators created covers for books with such provocative titles as Blow...

Gourmets and gourmands are pulling their ten Julia Child's cookbooks off the shelves to help celebrate the culinary icon's 100 birthday on August 15th. But foodies, lovers of pop culture and kids will also find a book to help celebrate Julia's birthday.

In 1961, Child introduced America to French...

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,...