In 2017, Blaskowsky and his wife, who then lived in Seattle, were searching for Japanese-language children’s books to read to their baby. The first installment in the Sato series—there are four—opens ...

GH picks the best kids books of 2025, including board books, picture books, graphic novels, and more nominated by librarians and tested with children.

Bess Kalb writes very good children’s books. The one-time writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live shot to no. 1 on the New York Times ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

My husband and I have two boys, “Aaron,” 9, and “Randall,” 7. Aaron has a friend from school, “Josh,” whose parents are major pot smokers. I have restricted play dates to our place, since I don’t want ...

Lisa Catalano assembled binders of applications from potential date candidates at her apartment in San Mateo Calif. on Oct.

It was, of course ... And kids don’t care about that. They’re humans, like the rest of us. You only want to learn a new skill if it’s going to do something for you.” When he visits schools to sign ...

Created by midwife Jo Zasloff together with art director Claudine Eriksson and illustrator Haein Kim, the book aims to offer an age-appropriate look at birth and all the “meaningful work midwives do” ...

During the first night of the recent government shutdown, congressional Democrats organized a livestream on YouTube featuring ...

My kids’ digital lives are rich, exciting and inspiring. Why am I supposed to keep them away from screens again?

Decisive regulation of social media is akin to the enfranchisement of women as a piece of revolutionary social policy reform.

In the twentieth century, we relied on the news media to select images and provide context. Now fewer and fewer of us are ...