Genre Explorations

Fiction, at its essence, is a condensation of the human experience, offering you a chance to step into a world outside your ownEva Weinstein with permission for Varsity I recently...

The 10 winners of The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award are chosen each year by a rotating panel of three expert judges.On the 2023...

For Tony Whitefield, his love for Greece is not only expressed through his regular visits to the country, but in his novels and literature. As a proud Philhellene from Brunswick,...

During a recent family trip to South Africa, there was one book from my holiday reading pile that I simply couldn’t put down. It had everything: suspense, mystery, humour, fantasy,...

At Scottish Book Trust, we believe books and reading can provide magic, comfort and joy. We also know that books play a significant role in affecting how children see themselves and...

Chapter book: Built For Speed by Vicky Fang Middle grade: Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth, The Wild Book by Margarita Engle Young adult: Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens,...

Though Caribbean immigrants and people of Caribbean descent represent a large chunk of the population, representation has been hard to come by. But that is quickly changing.For children of Caribbean...

July 26, 2023, 10:26am No children responded to my essay on the “adult problem” with kids books, somewhat proving the point. Adults aplenty chimed in, many of them people who...

ASTANA – The children’s book series “The Adventures of Batu and His Friends” (2014, 2019, 2021) is a work of love for Zira Nauryzbai, a Kazakh mythology researcher, writer, and...