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.

By focusing on action at the expense of introspection, The Hunger Games misses an opportunity to teach a real lesson about cyclical violence, the role we all play in perpetuating it, and our responsibility to make the right decisions.

Let me say up front that I'm soooo not your typical fantasy fiction reader. But I'm loving A Game of Thrones and here's why -- if you haven't already tried it -- you should also give it a go.

I am often asked why I write for children. What, people wonder, could have possessed me to bring myself down to the level of a ten year old?

It's hardly surprising that an author who made his name with a novel for children set during the Holocaust should expect a certain seriousness from li...

After years of buying books at Narnia Children's Books in Richmond's Museum District, best friends Jill Stefanovich and Jenesse Evertson have bought t...

Of course, all three authors value humor in books for kids -- as do I -- but what interests me most is to veer away from asking "if" and instead ask "why" funny books are important for kids.

The responses I have gotten from friends, family, and fans on the news of my 300th book runs the gamut from: "You have got to be kidding!" to "Anything good there?" to "You are a National Treasure/Goddess/Diva."

This list of books for dog lovers is one that I've been compiling for a while, waiting for an opportune moment--the right doggone moment--to let it of...

Some commenters have said that because Hopkins' books are available in the libraries, this is not censorship, but a matter of judgment. That festival ...

Is this merely coincidence, or is there something else at work here? Do American writers absorb Bildungsroman aptitude alongside fluoridated water and...