Las Musas, a collective of writers, held its first celebration of Latinx children's literature in December in a two-day, virtual festival featuring more than 140 authors and illustrators.

But it's not the first time that children's books as an art-form have blossomed. The First Golden Age, which took off in the 1850s, thanks to the increasing number and status of children, was ...

Children’s books, however, are a late growth of literature.” “There have been children’s stories and folk-tales ever since man first learned to speak. Skip to content ...

Concluding Words Global children’s literature can be transformational. However, there is a danger in thinking that if teachers simply integrate these texts into their teaching, the books will ...

Yale does not have a degree program for children’s literature. It’s only taught in a few courses here. Children’s literature as a discipline only started to take shape in the 1970s, so it’s relatively ...

Children’s literature has a long history of engaging tough topics in small and large ways and wrapping them up in adventure. Books as beloved as Katherine Paterson’s “Bridge to Terabithia ...

Picture books are my first love in kids' media, the thing that I love doing the most, however, it also can be limiting in some ways, because you only have, you know, less than 1,000 words ...

Children's literature has become far more diverse in the past decade, helping more kids than ever to see themselves in their favorite books. Of the thousands of kids' and teens' books reviewed in ...

In children’s books with adult heroes, children get to conspire alongside their elders. Defying the too-often adversarial relationship between adults and children in literature, such books ...