Asian American Children Are Front and Center in a New Version of a Groundbreaking Work
Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat’s “Made in Asian America” spotlights young people who defy erasure and make their own history.
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Reviews of and essays about children’s books from The New York Times.
Reviews of and essays about children’s books from The New York Times.
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CreditFrom “Made in Asian America” A Quite Contrary Alphabet Book Asks, How Did Our Gardens Grow?
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history.
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CreditKara Walker A Child’s-Eye View of One Black Family’s Covered-Wagon Journey
Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.
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CreditCaroline Peron Tom Hanks Reviews a Tale Told by a Typewriter
A boy’s mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared.
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More in Picture Books ›A Long-Forgotten TV Script by Rachel Carson Is Now a Picture Book
In “Something About the Sky,” the National Book Award-winning marine biologist brings her signature sense of wonder to the science of clouds.
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CreditNikki McClure Picture Books About the Way We Look
A story of gross beauty from David Sedaris and Ian Falconer, a scabrous tale from Beatrice Alemagna, and more.
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CreditBeatrice Alemagna José Saramago’s Childhood Memoir Inspires Companion Picture Books
The Nobel laureate’s “Small Memories” is a mix of peasant life, boyhood adventure and wide-eyed wonder.
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CreditYolanda Mosquera How John Lewis and Coretta Scott King embodied the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy while each creating their own.
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CreditJames E. Ransome ‘Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go’ Turns 50
For my family, reading Scarry together was itself like a car trip — the rare sort where no one gets cranky and the world, as seen from the back seat, is fresh and startling.
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In These Books, the Parents Are the Problem
The children in three illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.
By Jon Agee
Our Bunnies, Ourselves
How the bunny became the reigning star of children’s literature.
By Sadie Stein
It Was Enough to Make You Wish You Lived in a Boxcar
Gertrude Chandler Warner’s “The Boxcar Children,” celebrating its 100th year, depicts the delights of concocting scrumptious meals.
By Anna Holmes
Move Over, Alan Turing; Meet the Teenage Girls Who Rocked Bletchley Park
Britain’s youngest code-breakers, brought to life in a new nonfiction book by Candace Fleming, were normal teenagers: playing pranks, attending dances.
By Sarah Lyall
John Schu’s Novel-in-Verse Lets a Boy Speak About Anorexia
“Louder Than Hunger” joins a very small shelf of novels and memoirs that address eating disorders from a male point of view.
By John Schwartz
Kate DiCamillo’s New Children’s Novel Is a Balm for the Soul
In “Ferris,” a girl and her grandmother are visited by a friendly ghost; in Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a boy is visited by a time traveler.
By Gayle Forman
A Feminist Retelling of the Medusa Myth, for Middle Graders
In Katherine Marsh’s new novel, the girl with the snaky curls loses neither her head nor her wits.
By Nalini Jones
2 Middle Grade Novels About the Legacies of Partition
Veera Hiranandani’s “Amil and the After” and Saadia Faruqi’s “The Partition Project” show that the rending of the subcontinent is as relevant and heartbreaking as ever.
By Pooja Makhijani
The Best Children’s Books of 2023
Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.
By Jennifer Krauss
Holiday Gift Books for Children
From a 200th-anniversary edition of Clement C. Moore’s Christmas Eve tale to lightheartedly loopy poems for every day of the year.
By Catherine Hong
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