From old classics to new, here are the kids' books we love to read again and again. We found the best books by age, from ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, ...

The picture book 'Don't Trust Fish,' a blend of fiction and non-fiction, is beloved by librarians and kids alike, according ...

What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...

The ritual of bedtime reading is much more than just a routine: it's a moment of complicity, gentleness and discovery. Did ...

When I first started compiling this year-end book list, my daughters were 3 years and just 6 months old, and my main duties were feeding and chasing them around. But now that they are 10 and 7, I have ...

Kid lit experts weigh in on some of the year's best science titles. Plus, what to look for when choosing a book for the child in your life.

April is Arab American Heritage Month, but stories about and for Arab American children remain relatively rare. Despite the population of Arabs in the United States totaling 3.7 million people with ...

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 ...