- 2025 Jul 09
From Vox
The truth behind the endless "kids can’t read" discourse.
From The Local Voice
Young Adult Literature Is Not as Young as It Used to Be.
- 2025 Jul 07
From the Guardian
'Chipping away at democracy': authors fear outcome of U.S. Supreme Court's LGBTQ+ book ruling.
From NPR
From caterpillar to butterfly, Papilio grows up in a new picture book.
From McSweeney's
Short Imagined Monologues: Sal from Blueberries for Sal Breaks Her Silence.
- 2025 Jul 02
From EdSurge
Large Public Libraries Give Young Adults Across U.S. Access to Banned Books.
From HuffPost
"I Wrote One of the Books at the Center of SCOTUS' Scary Ruling. Here's What They Don't Want You to See" by Katherine Locke.
From the APA
Taking a stand against book bans: how psychologists are fighting censorship to keep culturally diverse books available to everyone.
From the New York Times
He Searched for His Past in Children's Books. He Found His Wife's.
From People
How the Pandemic Inspired Meg Medina's First Foray into Fantasy.
From the New York Times
By the Book: How to Train Your Dragon Author Cressida Cowell Loves to Peruse Recipes Before Bed.
From Brightly
Globe Trotting Adventure Books for Middle Grade Readers.
From Book Riot
The Perfect Gifts for Alice in Wonderland Fans.
- 2025 Jun 30
From the Washington Post
Supreme Court sides with religious parents seeking to opt out of lessons with LGBTQ storybooks.
From the Baltimore Banner
It just got tougher to ban books in Maryland school libraries.
From Deadline
San Francisco Bookstore Pulls Harry Potter Books Over J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Views.
From Upworthy
New dads explain why they still love the 'creepy, unhinged' children's book Love You Forever.
From the New York Times
Review: A New Wrinkle in Time Production Needs to Iron Out Some Problems.
From Brightly
Books to Get Kids Out of a Reading Slump.
- 2025 Jun 25
From the New York Times
Author Susan Beth Pfeffer, who wrote complex stories for young adults, including Life as We Knew It and The Year Without Michael, has died at 77.
From the Guardian
'One kid at a time': How children's books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity.
From BuzzFeed
Major Ways the We Were Liars TV Series Differs from the Book, and Behind-the-Scenes Details E. Lockhart Spilled About the Show.
From People
A Game Show Is Struck by a Hefty Dose of Murder in The Escape Game, a YA thriller due out next year by Marissa Meyer and Tamara Moss.
From the Bridge
Katherine Paterson: Prolific, Celebrated, Beloved, and Never Speechless.
From People
Raj Tawney on sharing his success as an author with his immigrant father.
From Book Riot
Magical Meals: 7 YA Fantasy Reads for Foodies.
- 2025 Jun 23
From the Bookseller
Authors are being hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated.
From the Bookseller
Margaret McDonald on the shock of winning the Carnegie Medal for Glasgow Boys.
From the Bookseller
Carnegie Medal-winning illustrator Olivia Lomenech Gill on the importance of not talking down to children.
From Literary Hub
Why America Can't Get Enough of The Wizard of Oz.
From TEDxPadova
The Stories That Hurt Boys: Francesca Cavallo on Reclaiming Masculinity from Shame.
- 2025 Jun 16
From Literary Hub
How a Single Court Case Could Determine the Future of Book Banning in America.
From Animation World Network
Not a Box TV Adaptation: A Bunny, Some Cardboard and a Magical World of Adventures.
From the BBC
Roald Dahl's original sketches to be auctioned.
From Book Riot
A Perfect Match: YA Matchmaker-Themed Romances.
From Brightly
Picture Books That Celebrate Caribbean Heritage.
- 2025 Jun 12
From the Los Angeles Times
Peter Brown rebooted The Wild Robot for the preschool set. His underlying message remains.
- 2025 Jun 11
From the Minnesota Star Tribune
Minnesota school district rewrites book review policy, agrees to return banned titles to shelves.
From the Guardian
Children's reading enjoyment falls to lowest recorded level in the U.K.
From the New Yorker
Impossible Creatures author Katherine Rundell recommends four works set in fantastical worlds.
From the Associated Press
Corinne Bailey Rae's first picture book, Put Your Records On, draws upon her musical past.
From Literary Hub
Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll.
From Book Riot
Queer Native, Indigenous, and Aboriginal YA Fiction.
From 100 Scope Notes
'This Book' Books of 2025.
From Book Riot
Maurice Sendak-Themed Gifts for Wild Things of Every Age.
- 2025 Jun 09
From the Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon "freedom to read" library bill heads to the governor's desk.
From Variety
Dasher, a CG-animated holiday special based on the Matt Tavares picture book, is being developed by Disney Branded Television.
From Deadline
Powerless TV Series Based on YA Fantasy Books in Works at Amazon.
From Intelligent Collector
Maurice Sendak's Wild Things Drawing Sells for Record $625,000.
From Book Riot
Adventure Is Out There: Playful Picture Books for Summer Reading.
- 2025 Jun 04
From Literary Hub
How Britain's 1980s Anti-Gay Laws Impacted a Generation of Young LGBTQ Readers.
From LateNighter
Kenan Thompson Teams with SNL Writer for Debut Children's Book.
From Crime Reads
Nova Ren Suma on Outlaw Women in Fiction.
From Cracked
14 Celebrity Children's Books to Put You Right to Sleep.
- 2025 Jun 02
From the Guardian
'It's so boring': Gen Z parents don't like reading to their kids—and educators are worried.
From the New York Times
Summer Reading Challenges Aren't Just for Kids.
From WBIR
Knoxville, Tenn., bookstore hosting Banned Book Club after more than 100 books removed from Knox Co. Schools' shelves.
- 2025 May 28
From the Oregonian
Oregon's ban on book bans is heading for a final vote in the legislature.
From Austin American Statesman
5th Circuit rules that Texas library patrons have no First Amendment right to information.
From Slate
Opinion: there would be nothing for book banners to fear were it not for their recognition that literature has power.
From Book Riot
Celebrating 20 Years of And Tango Makes Three.
From Parade
R.L. Stine on how his iconic Goosebumps series got its name, why his son never reads his work, and the Netflix film Fear Street: Prom Queen.
From NPR
Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati on making poetry fun.
From WBUR
Randy Rainbow and the Marvelously Magical Pink Glasses tells kids to embrace individuality.
From the New York Times
Elisha Cooper on the Beauty of Imperfect Children's Book Art.
- 2025 May 21
From the Washington Post
Federal judge orders that Education Department must reinstate nearly 1,400 fired workers.
From the Associated Press
Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn.
From ADF
Oregon education service district bans children’s books.
From the Times
British author Aidan Chambers, author of Dance on My Grave, Postcards from No Man's Land, and other groundbreaking YA novels, has died at age 90.
From the Bookseller
Japanese-inspired children's indie publisher Do Re Mi to launch in U.K. in 2026.
From the Conversation
Moomin merchandise and fashion: 80 years of ultra-savvy marketing that taps into childhood nostalgia.
From the Associated Press
Gloria Steinem and Leymah Gbowee, activists and close friends, are working on a picture book.
From NPR
The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner explores the healing power of hiking.
From People
New YA Romance 'Love in Translation' Series Offers Study Abroad Escape.
From NPR
Kids notice everything—here's what one child sees Next to Me.
- 2025 May 19
From KERA News
Bill Making Bookstores Liable for 'Obscene Displays' Appears Dead in Texas House.
From Variety
Netflix Picks Up Sesame Street Worldwide Streaming Rights After Max Deal Ends.
From People
Sunrise on the Reaping Is Getting a Collector's Edition.
From the New York Times
Ibram X. Kendi Introduces Malcolm X to a New Generation.
From People
The Anxious Generation's Jonathan Haidt Encourages Kids to Break Up with Their Phones in The Amazing Generation.
From Today
Read with Jenna Jr. 2025: See all 22 books on her summer reading list.
From Christie’s
7 Surprising Things from Maurice Sendak's Collection.
- 2025 May 14
From AL.com
What is a 'sexually explicit' book? What Alabama's new rule means for libraries.
From People
Sheryl Lee Ralph and Pennsylvania Legislature Celebrate Expansion of Scholastic Literacy Program: Reading Is Definitely Fundamental'
From Animation Magazine
Apple TV+ announces new animated pre-K series Not a Box based on Antoinette Portis's picture book.
From People
National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Mac Barnett Wrote a Rumpelstiltskin Retelling.
From People
Samira Ahmed's New YA Multiverse Romance Will Help Kids See Themselves as Heroes.
From the Conversation
The Moomins drift through time like a myth—that's why they resist meaning and endure.
From Entertainment Weekly
The best movies based on children's books, from Little Women to The Wizard of Oz.
From Fuse #8
A Complete Listing of Children's Literature Statues: 2025 Edition.
- 2025 May 12
From the Wall Street Journal
How World War II Became the Hottest Book Craze… for Kids.
From the Washington Post
Judy Blume wrote honestly about teen sex. At 50, Forever endures.
From the Associated Press
Kids' author Mo Willems and The Pigeon stare down the future in a new book.
From Book Riot
8 Young Adult Books to Read for Jewish American Heritage Month.
- 2025 May 07
From Book Riot
Utah Bans 18th Book from All Public Schools Statewide.
From Maclean's
"How My LGBTQ Kids' Book Ended Up at the U.S. Supreme Court."
From the SC Daily Gazette
Author Malinda Lo asks: Why is sex so scary to book banners?
From School Library Journal
When Erica S. Perl's school visit was canceled, she fought back and won.
From the New York Times
Forever, a new Netflix series, adapts Judy Blume's 1970s novel with a contemporary Black cast.
From Deadline
E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan to be adapted into an animated feature film.