Behold, the picture book! The great and glorious literature hiding in humble places all around us: on the bottommost shelves ...

Picture book author Mac Barnett has been named the Library of Congress' new ambassador for young people's literature. He discusses what the role means when engaging kids in reading can be a struggle.

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

A boy unearths a treasure trove of adjectives, and a strange word discovered by a scholar becomes an overnight sensation. From “A Chest Full of Words.”Credit...Rebecca Gugger and Simon Röthlisberger ...

Here we round up new and forthcoming children’s titles including a picture book riff on a holiday carol, a speculative middle grade novel about a school locker revealing intergenerational secrets, a ...

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.

In a lot of ways, it's never been harder to convince kids to pick up a book over a phone or iPad. But worrying about declining literacy rates and reading test scores – that's adults' business. And Mac ...