The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak are all among the best, most purely fun books for kids.

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The Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children’s Book Collection, housed in the Mechanics’ Institute, is arguably the city’s most ...

We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published.

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This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. 39 weeks on the list by Alice Hemming. Illustrated by Nicola Slater Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Squirrel attempts to figure out who has stolen his ...

Maurice Sendak is probably best known to the children of America for having written and illustrated “Where the Wild Things Are” (1963). Sendak died in 2012, yet his work continues with “Hansel and ...

When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year, she chose Rita Dove’s “The First Book” to be the entry for January 1. The poem describes what it’s like ...

Pam Muñoz Ryan’s “El Niño” combines magical realism, climate fiction and coming-of-age sports tales. By Bonnie Tsui Mine came flooding back as I read Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud’s “The ...