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Reviews of and essays about children’s books from The New York Times.
Reviews of and essays about children’s books from The New York Times.
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CreditCricket magazine A Picture Book Paean to the Golden Age of LPs
Kids don’t need to know what zydeco is, or that Mandy and the Meerkats are a nod to Diana Ross and the Supremes, to dig this spoof of vintage vinyl.
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CreditCece Bell A Luminary Children’s Author You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Picture book writers whose works look different from one another because they’re illustrated by different artists are less apt to be on your radar.
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CreditErin Stead Tween Fiction That Probes What It Means to Be a Boy Trying to Be a Man
In “Ultraviolet,” by Aida Salazar, and “Mid-Air,” by Alicia D. Williams, the thunderstorm of adolescence splits open a once peaceful sky.
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CreditEdel Rodriguez A Long-Forgotten TV Script by Rachel Carson Is Now a Picture Book
In “Something About the Sky,” the National Book Award-winning marine biologist brings her signature sense of wonder to the science of clouds.
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CreditNikki McClure Picture Books About the Way We Look
A story of gross beauty from David Sedaris and Ian Falconer, a scabrous tale from Beatrice Alemagna, and more.
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CreditBeatrice Alemagna José Saramago’s Childhood Memoir Inspires Companion Picture Books
The Nobel laureate’s “Small Memories” is a mix of peasant life, boyhood adventure and wide-eyed wonder.
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CreditYolanda Mosquera How John Lewis and Coretta Scott King embodied the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy while each creating their own.
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Whose Folk Tale Is It Anyway?
A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.
By Sabrina Orah Mark
A Child’s Island of Wonder, as Fascism Rises
Alki Zei’s Greek classic, set in the birthplace of democracy in the mid-1930s, feels eerily relevant in today’s America.
By Adam Gopnik
Wanted: The Good Old Days When Kid-Lit Criminals Were Bad
Even for the youngest readers, attempted piggy-bank robbery may not cut it.
By Adam Rubin
Asian American Children Are Front and Center in a New Version of a Groundbreaking Work
Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat’s “Made in Asian America” spotlights young people who defy erasure and make their own history.
By Paula Yoo
A Quite Contrary Alphabet Book Asks, How Did Our Gardens Grow?
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history.
By Celia McGee
A Child’s-Eye View of One Black Family’s Covered-Wagon Journey
Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.
By Salamishah Tillet
In These Books, the Parents Are the Problem
The children in three illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.
By Jon Agee
Our Bunnies, Ourselves
How the bunny became the reigning star of children’s literature.
By Sadie Stein
Tom Hanks Reviews a Tale Told by a Typewriter
A boy’s mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared.
By Tom Hanks
It Was Enough to Make You Wish You Lived in a Boxcar
Gertrude Chandler Warner’s “The Boxcar Children,” celebrating its 100th year, depicts the delights of concocting scrumptious meals.
By Anna Holmes
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