Reading with young children has lots of benefits. Experts agree it can be key to language, cognitive and emotional development, while also encouraging imagination and creativity. Books can help boost ...

Books are an incredible tool to help children gain empathy by reading about other cultures and walking in someone else’s footsteps. There are approximately 23,000 young-adult titles in the collection.

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

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 ...

While the landscape of inclusive children’s books is improving, it can still be a challenge to parse through the thousands of picture books about mommies and daddies to find ones featuring two-mom ...

We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published.