Wanted: The Good Old Days When Kid-Lit Criminals Were Bad
Even for the youngest readers, attempted piggy-bank robbery may not cut it.
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Even for the youngest readers, attempted piggy-bank robbery may not cut it.
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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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Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history.
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Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.
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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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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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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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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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‘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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The children in three illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.
By Jon Agee
How the bunny became the reigning star of children’s literature.
By Sadie Stein
A boy’s mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared.
By Tom Hanks
Gertrude Chandler Warner’s “The Boxcar Children,” celebrating its 100th year, depicts the delights of concocting scrumptious meals.
By Anna Holmes
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
“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
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
In Katherine Marsh’s new novel, the girl with the snaky curls loses neither her head nor her wits.
By Nalini Jones
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
Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.
By Jennifer Krauss
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