Kids' Book Explorer

There is a wimpy kid in all of us. Greg Heffley is the smug, cowardly, comical hero in Jeff Kinney’s series . He is learning how to be a goo...

I wish "George's Secret Key to the Universe"  was available when I was a kid. But unfortunately, it was published in 2007, so little Meriwet...

When I laid eyes on Amelia Earhart's first plane, The Canary, at the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, I was maybe 8 years old. Ever s...

The duet with Katy Perry and Elmo on Sesame Street is WRONG, not because we need to protect our children from Katy Perry, but because we nee...

Two children's books by Allen Say , "Erika-San" and "Kamishibai Man," have detailed and dimensional cover illustrations accentuated by sil...

Chudney Ross, daughter of Diana Ross of The Supremes, has opened a bookstore/bakery in Santa Monica, California called "Books and Cookies." ...

The beloved children's book, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," by Laura Numeroff , came out when I was two years old. I remember thinking it ...

Edward Gorey illustrated this bizarre and delightful book, The Shrinking of Treehorn ,  which was published in 1971.The patterns on people's...

This is a fascinating article about the underrepresentation of central girl characters in children's books. In my experience with children,...