Genre Explorations

The issue, then, is the extent to which publishers feel the need to pander to the limitations any one group might impose, particularly in such an uncommonly politicized children’s book...

The Rabbit hOle, a new immersive museum dedicated to children’s literature, has opened to the public in North Kansas City, Missouri. Described as a multi-sensory literary wonderland, the Rabbit hOle...

Arts Council England (ACE) will fund a pilot project exploring the representation of people with disabilities in children’s books for three to 11-year-olds. Announced at The Bookseller’s Children’s Conference, the...

Whether your to-be-read stack is full of classic books or nonexistent, you should know that there are many benefits of reading—and reading physical, printed books has its advantages. There's nothing...

The five-year-old in my life is under strict instruction, come library day, to bring home no fart books. “Fart book” is an umbrella term. It covers not only the genre...

Stories surrounding global poverty that are produced for children are arguably critical in terms of enabling the world’s youth to gain an understanding from an early age about the importance...

I write children’s books because I believe they’re the most important books of all. They’re the books that make us readers in the first place. And as books written for...

December 1, 20232 min readAre Children’s Books Improving Representation?Racial and gender disparities persist in award-winning kids’ literature despite recent gains in representationBy Jesse Greenspan Children's literature has become far more...