The picture book is a powerful, flexible art form whose audience — children — are keen and sensitive observers, new to our world and alert to its beauty and strangeness.

The author of more than 60 books for young readers and 2011’s “Picture Book Manifesto” that challenged creators and their publishers to energize the category, Barnett became the 2025–2026 ...

Where are the children with disabilities? It's not kids' picture books, according to new research from Edith Cowan University ...

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 ...

Celebrity children’s books are a recurring phenomenon – from Jamie Oliver and Keira Knightley to Meghan Markle and Jimmy Barnes. But writing for children is harder than it might look.

Two New Picture Books About the Transformative Power of Language A boy unearths a treasure trove of adjectives, and a strange word discovered by a scholar becomes an overnight sensation.

In the new picture book, Gorman isn't shying away from gender equality and topics sometimes considered too advanced for kids.