Genre Explorations

Topline The self-help industry seems to still be riding its decade-long surge in popularity as four of the top five bestselling non-fiction books this year promise to help readers work...

Cultivating friendships is a huge part of going to school. It’s always a good time for class chats about making friends, helping and appreciating friends, and tackling friendship challenges. A...

By Damiete Braide The collection of poems is the writer’s debut. It explores topical issues capable of eliciting healthy conversations that could engender deep reflections and transformations. While living in...

About fifteen years ago, a former friend lent me Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose. It documents five Victorian marriages: those of Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens...

A recent report from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that despite the increasing diversity in the U.S., the number of children’s books written by...

Once upon a time, nonfiction books were the unsung underdogs of the children’s publishing world. Many adults believed that children prefer fiction. But a growing body of research shows something...

Summer vacations will soon be starting in some parts of the world and many parents struggle with planning their kids’ free time. If you are one of them and want...

The Japanese Yokai Handbook by Masami Kinoshita When I googled popular mythical creatures (for reasons involving my child), search results included unicorns, dragons, mermaids, the phoenix, the kraken. But within...

China’s April bestseller lists are starting to include more mental-health content for young readers, looking at ‘insensitive force’ and expressiveness. A family at Geming Revolution Park in Shaanxi Province reads...