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Books Your Kids Will Actually Like, Chosen by the People Who Know

Laura Bradley

Aug 31, 2016 1:33 PM

As a Boy, I Was Obsessed With the Baby-Sitters Club Books. I Have No Regrets.

Bennett Madison

Aug 30, 2016 12:15 PM

I Censor the Books I Read to My Child. I’m Not Ashamed!

YiLing Chen-Josephson

Aug 30, 2016 11:02 AM

The Unexpected, Trashy Joy of Reading Kids’ Books Written by Celebrities

Laura Bennett

Aug 29, 2016 9:00 AM

Miss Peregrine’s Author Ransom Riggs, Interviewed by an Extremely Well-Prepared 11-Year-Old Fan

Lyra Kois

Aug 26, 2016 8:00 AM

My Son Is Almost 3 and Doesn’t Talk. Reading to Him Has Helped Me Understand Him.

Chloe Schama

Aug 25, 2016 1:10 PM

How Lynda Barry Met Marlys

Lynda Barry

Aug 24, 2016 9:00 AM

The Great Rooms of Children’s Literature

Rumaan Alam

Aug 23, 2016 9:30 AM

How Hard Is It To Make Your Own Children’s Book? Reader, We Tried.

Slate Staff

Aug 22, 2016 5:45 AM

We’ve Stopped Translating Children’s Books Into English. Where Will We Get the Next Tintin?

Daniel Hahn

Aug 18, 2016 1:29 PM

The Wonderful, Terrible Power of Food in Roald Dahl

Annalisa Quinn

Aug 17, 2016 2:59 PM

Wait, in This Children’s Book, the Robbers Steal the Little Kid and What Happens?!

Mark O'Connell

Aug 16, 2016 9:30 AM

Gertrude Stein Wrote a Children’s Book, and It’s As Weirdly Mesmerizing As You’d Think

Adrienne Raphel

Aug 15, 2016 1:39 PM

How Did Children’s Literature Evolve From Prim Morality Tales to the Likes of Captain Underpants?

Katy Waldman

Aug 12, 2016 11:09 AM

A Nancy Drew Ghostwriter on the Art of Being “Carolyn Keene” and the Evolution of Nancy Drew

Heather Schwedel

Aug 11, 2016 6:21 PM

Watership Down and the Power of Not-Quite-Appropriate Children’s Books

Nicole Cliffe

Aug 10, 2016 12:24 PM

We’re Giving the Wrong Dr. Seuss Book as a Graduation Gift

Ben Orlin

Aug 09, 2016 11:11 AM

How American Girl’s Puberty Books Shaped a Whole Generation of Tweens

Aisha Harris

Aug 08, 2016 2:16 PM

The (Not Very Fast) Adventures of Snail and Worm

Dan Kois

Aug 08, 2016 11:35 AM

Anne Carroll Moore, the Librarian Who Changed Children’s Literature Forever

Laura Miller

Aug 05, 2016 11:26 AM

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