News & Features

Author Susan H. Kamei discusses her YA narrative nonfiction work When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, and why it's so vital to acknowledge and understand this episode in U.S. history.

Tell Me Another Story, fromThe Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in collaboration with the Office Performing Arts + Film, highlights past and present creators and advocates whose focus has uplifted children’s literature.

Author Beth Anderson and illustrator S.D. Schindler bring to life the famous first son who coped with a disability and other challenges while showing compassion, intelligence, and wisdom beyond his years in their new nonfiction picture book.

We are pleased to share an exclusive first look and cover reveal for UNEQUAL: A STORY OF AMERICA by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau. But before we show the cover, here is chat we had with Michael Eric and Marc about the creation of their new book, out in the world in May 2022.

Lavishly illustrated, with appealing design, browsable nonfiction has revolutionized children’s books by giving young fact lovers a fresh, engaging way to access information. And more titles are on the horizon.

From the Walter Dean Myers and Sydney Taylor Awards to the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature, 11 honors you should know about. Use them to expand your collection and recommend worthy titles to teachers, parents, and young readers. 

As Halloween creeps up, these five audio dramas deliver chills and thrills. 
 

Younger readers, seeing older kids read “Dog Man” and Raina Telgemeier’s books, want comics, too. Here’s a look at some new and upcoming graphic novels for early readers, ages four to eight.

Books are being challenged across the country; districts in Pennsylvania and Texas dominate the news with their decisions to remove materials.