This is the first story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. To please his mother, a writer attempts a children’s ...

The problem with Bluey is there's not enough of it. Even with 151 seven-minute-long episodes of the popular children's animated show out there, parents of toddlers still desperately wait for Australia ...

Children’s books are bodies of work that thrive on specificity. With just the right use of humor, wit, and alliteration, authors like Theodor Seuss Geisel, Lewis Carroll, and Margaret Atwood, among ...

Poe is an animated talking teddy bear toy that uses ChatGPT to generate children's stories. I took it for an early test run and bedtime got strange. My 5-year-old son enjoyed the chaos of making an AI ...

A children’s ministry veteran explains where kids’ Bibles tend to go wrong—and highlights a few that get it right. The best children’s Bibles are remarkable works of faith and art. They offer young ...

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 ...

Ghosts in stories for children are a blank canvas. You can show your audience a ghost and, if you play it right, almost just leave it at that. Credit...Georgie McAusland Supported by By Jon Klassen ...

Those innocent bedtime stories you lovingly read aloud night after night contained sophisticated adult themes that sailed right over young heads but spoke directly to your parental experiences and ...