Spend any time scanning a list of banned books and you’ll find some head-scratchers: picture books challenged for including seemingly gay characters in the background, or describing a difficult moment in history, or revealing a naked goblin butt. Among the most banned picture books of the last... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-10 08:58:37 UTC ]
Patricia MacLachlan, author of beloved children's literature including Sarah, Plain and Tall, died on March 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-04-06 10:54:45 UTC ]
Macmillan has released a golden edition of the children’s classic as the beloved children’s book turns 40 this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-15 17:45:43 UTC ]
Beloved children's author Gary Paulsen died October 13. Here's a look at his life and legacy through literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-10-14 11:22:48 UTC ]
Today, April 9th, marks the fifty-eight publication anniversary of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. Perhaps the most beloved children’s book of the latter half of the 20th century, Sendak’s gorgeously-illustrated tale of a young boy in a wolf suit who, upon being sent to bed with no... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-04-09 16:58:23 UTC ]
Her funny stories about Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, the sisters Ramona and Beezus Quimby, and a motorcycling mouse named Ralph never talked down to readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-27 22:33:26 UTC ]
Norton Juster, architect and author of the beloved children's book The Phantom Tollbooth, has passed away. Here is the legacy he has left. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-03-10 16:54:56 UTC ]
Many of us have fond memories of Harold and the Purple Crayon—Crockett Johnson’s beloved children’s book about a four-year-old boy exploring the contours of his imagination through drawing. Yesterday afternoon, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Zachary Levi will be starring in Sony... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-02 17:11:35 UTC ]
DePaola wrote or illustrated more than 270 children's books, sold nearly 25 million copies and had his books translated into more than 20 languages. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-03-31 18:51:09 UTC ]
Judith Kerr, a refugee from Nazi Germany who wrote and illustrated the bestselling "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" and other beloved children's books, has died at her home in London. She was 95. The author died Wednesday after a brief illness, said Charlie Redmayne, chief executive at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-23 19:30:00 UTC ]
A blaze ripped through Ashdown Forest, the setting for British author A.A. Milne's beloved children's books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-05-01 00:38:53 UTC ]
Collection of short pieces, which has been in the works for more than a decade, takes stock of The Snowman author’s lifeRaymond Briggs is one of the UK’s most beloved children’s authors, the creator of characters from The Snowman to Fungus the Bogeyman. But in his forthcoming book Time for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s called “Crimes New Roman.” Harry Potter, the beloved children’s books by J.K. Rowling, is now a bona fide franchise, with books, theme parks, and countless movies. The latest? The Crimes of Grindelwald, a sequel to the spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It’s playing in movie... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dr Seuss long ago passed from the scene but old manuscripts by the beloved children's author keep turning up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roald Dahl's beloved children's book The Witches gets a timely work-out in this one-man show. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Donald Sobol, author of the beloved children's book series "Encyclopedia Brown," died Wednesday in Miami. He was 87. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]