Rather than treating the past as something distant, Menon's books invite children to step into different eras and experience ...

RENTON, Wash. — Late on a Saturday afternoon last month, a gaggle of children, ages 1 to 5, trickled onto a patio next to a bar, sat in tiny plastic chairs and waited for a host who was about to ...

Drag Story Hour exists, performer Veronika Electronika said, because many busy parents are unable to read to their kids.

Recent news reports have described the public controversy involving topics of sexual orientation and gender identity, and how these are presented to children, especially in schools and libraries.

This is the first story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. To please his mother, a writer attempts a children’s ...

The problem with Bluey is there's not enough of it. Even with 151 seven-minute-long episodes of the popular children's animated show out there, parents of toddlers still desperately wait for Australia ...

Drag Queen Story Hour—in which performers in drag read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores—has become a cultural flashpoint. The political Right has denounced these performances as ...

The power of children’s stories resides largely in its audience: in how open young people are to new ideas. Their drive to experiment is familiar to any parent: Children invent new words, do things ...

Today we are facing unprecedented challenges, but we also have a unique opportunity to create a better world. Nearly 1 billion children worldwide are growing up in countries exposed to the negative ...