Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

This year’s top titles run the gamut and include an adaption of a Korean folk tale, a highly entertaining question-and-answer ...

James Marshall’s “George and Martha” books are witty and complex in their depictions of transformative friendship.

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Tennessee Williams' early radio play, “The Strangers,” is featured in The Strand this week. Written in the late 1930s while ...

The book by Omar El Akkad stems from a viral tweet. A book about Jewish refugees won the young people’s literature award. A provocative essay collection about the West’s response to the Gaza war and a ...

Twelve years ago today, the country music world lost an innovative singer, songwriter, and guitarist who helped define the ...

Few dates on the calendar get shorter shrift than poor old November 18. Bereft of major holidays, all but anonymous, and cold — but not even cold enough to snow (at least in a lot of the U.S.) — it ...

Little Bell Caribbean, the publishing house behind some of the Virgin Islands’ most beloved children’s books, is adding a new title to its Broo ‘Nansi collection just in time for the holidays. Broo ...

Columnist recalls the Sears Wish Book, handmade sock monkeys and the simple pleasures of Christmas before today’s overwhelming toy aisles.