If Puffin's marketing department had tried to invent the ideal author profile to appeal to the difficult early-teenage-boy demographic, they couldn't ...

Huckleberry Finn rubs shoulders with Artemis Fowl, Charlie and Lola with Fungus the Bogeyman, and Dick King Smith's Sheep-Pig with Gerald Durrell's Fa...

Many books make me cry when I encounter them for the first time, although fewer these days than during my mascara-smeared teens. But it's rare that a ...

Barefoot Books is a small children's book publisher focused on a holistic experience of reading.

That's where audiobooks comes in. OK, they're technically not reading, but it is listening to literature read aloud -- verbatim -- by people who can d...

HarperCollins has signed Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy to a deal to write three novels for middle-school students....

The British publisher Michael O'Mara is set to release a mash-up book combining elements of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series with Jeff Kinney's Diary...

Bestselling author Harlan Coben inked a three-book deal for a young adult series with the Penguin Young Readers Group, telling the story of a teenager...

Now, Henry Winkler is reinventing himself as a best-selling children's author. The 64-year-old American actor has written a set of 17 books featuring ...

Many kids are ready and willing to read books intended for adults, but selecting books with both kid-friendly style and content can be time consuming....

This Father's Day, get Dad a present he can share with his children: a picture book. To get you started, here's a look at some new picture books in w...

Frankly, Lilly's story about "Squickerwonkers" sounds pretty icky to us. And while everyone from Madonna to Crips founder Tookie Williams seems to hav...

Grisham has 24 books under his belt, many of which were turned into movies, including The Pelican Brief and A Time To Kill. But he says writing for a ...

"Lost" star Evangeline Lilly wants to break into the children's book business, she told Craig Ferguson last night on "The Late Late Show." And now tha...

Publishers are trying to entice kids to read books by offering companion Web sites that are graphic-rich and able to plunge young readers into the sto...

"Reading Rainbow," the popular children's show that ran from the mid-80's until 2006, may return, according to the show's host LeVar Burton via his Tw...

Amulet Books has announced the publication date for the fifth book in Jeff Kinney's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series....

The Sesame Street e-bookstore is an online collection of 121 character-driven e-books -- covering learning subject areas like letters, numbers, counti...

Today kicks off Children's Book Week, the celebration of those books. And it's not that I don't keep up with the adult reading world -- "Life Would Be...

Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things won the most fun story with pictures category, while Why Eating Bogeys is Good For You took the title for best...

Over the past few weeks I have been reading the Percy Jackson books to my son. We started with The Lightning Thief, the first book in the series. He q...

For kids, at least those in colder climes, winter is for outdoor adventures in snow and on ice. But north or south, it's also the season for indoor ad...

The Berenstain Bears are heading to the big screen. Walden Media, the family-friendly studio behind the "Narnia" feature franchise, has picked up the...

Mrs. Geissler's reading of Island of the Blue Dolphins caught me. For the first time, I was in book love -- I couldn't wait to hear what happened next.

The publishers of "What's Eating You?: Parasites -- The Inside Story" were kind enough to send me a copy of this science picture book for young reader...