Genre Explorations

By Tania Saili Bakshi & Nikita Aggarwal Pics Courtesy: Shivang Yadav Dehradun, 3 Jun: The literary community of Dehradun gathered at Valley of Words (VoW) Café on 2 June for...

Emily Bridget Taylor is a Perth-based poet and spoken word performer devoted to bringing poetry off the page.  Combining the mediums of performance, music, visual art and the printed word,...

DURING THE same week that many across the globe will be celebrating International Women’s Day  on March 8, young people and those who educate them across the UK and Ireland...

Positive Gypsy, Roma and Traveller characters in children’s books can inspire and engage young readers. Gemma Lees advises and offers some recommendations for your primary school library The first...

Ashley Graham has been an impactful force in shifting the conversation on beauty standards throughout her career. From being the first curvy model to grace the cover of the Sports...

Emma Layfield has made the permanent move to Children’s Books North (CBN), having co-founded the organisation in 2020. Layfield leaves her role as picture book development director (North) after 25...

A new list has ranked the 30 most-loved children's books, according to parents. The research revealed that the timeless bedtime story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, is the...

The recurring, yet sometimes overlooked role of the built environment in children’s literature is being showcased in Building Stories, a new long-term exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington,...

Nonny Hogrogian, an illustrator who drew on her Armenian heritage to bring diversity and wonder to her woodcuts and watercolors — an approach that helped expand the world of children’s...

Even before her death, Ursula K. Le Guin had become one of the literary world’s secular saints. Since her passing, her halo has only grown brighter: In a rhapsodic piece...