Launch of the Children's Booker Prize The Booker Prize Foundation has unveiled an exciting initiative: the "Children's Booker ...

I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in “The Story of Babar.” My daughter was freaked out by “The Very Hungry Caterpillar ...

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

Most people have probably heard the saying that watching laws being made is like watching sausage-making. It’s best not to observe the messy process or to know what goes into the final product.

A cheeky narrator recounts a parent’s worst nightmare in Brenda Lozano’s new novel. By Bruna Dantas Lobato Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer and translator. Her debut novel, “Blue Light Hours,” came out ...

The intersection of food and health is receiving unprecedented attention in the United States. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing a Make America Healthy Again agenda.

A character's father killed himself when the character was 4 years old; she was there but didn't witness anything directly. Memories of the aftermath include lots of blood and a missing face, but ...

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.

Our editor's tweens have read dozens of books on their Kindles over the years. After testing the new Amazon Kindle Kids ...

The cover of "10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World" and author Jean Twenge. (Courtesy of Atria Books and Pam Davis) For parents raising their kids in the age of phones, social media and the ...

PBS Kids is expanding “Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures,” which debuted in 2023 as a series of shorts, into a full half-hour series set to debut in 2026. A spinoff of “Super Why,” which ran on PBS ...

The instinct to regulate children’s digital consumption is admirable. But what if tech isn’t the bogeyman we think it is? Research on the effect of social media on kids’ mental health is mixed, with ...