January is Picture Book Month and the Library is celebrating with the theme “Bundle Up with Picture Books.” There is no denying the benefits of reading picture books with young (and not-so-young) ...

Young kids are said to benefit greatly from them, and the county system is celebrating January’s events with a “Bundle Up” ...

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.

Omaha Public Library announced last month that it finally received a book that was checked out in 1985. The Nebraska library posted a picture of the book, a children's picture book called "Millions of ...

Molly Valentine, a Crocker Farm Elementary student, works with librarian and teacher Waleska Santiago-Centeno on panels for the Memory Project. For the project, students created hanging banners ...

Keats once said, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” Some would say the same about a picture book. Many teachers and librarians believe that picture books aren’t just for the wee ones, and they are ...

A Falls Church, Va., public library moved a pro-Palestinian alphabet book to a different location in its kids’ section this week following a review of the book by library staff. After the Mary Riley ...

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.

It’s a story filled with the stuff of timeless, revered children’s books: embarking on hazardous adventures on horseback, beating unfavorable odds to achieve an admirable goal, reaching out to those ...

Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express. By Elizabeth A. Harris ...

Disagreement about having a picture book about a trans boy remain in a North Carolina county’s library led commissioners to dissolve the county library board.

A program this month encourages library patrons in Worcester, Mass., who have lost or damaged books or other items to reactivate their accounts. All they need is a picture of a cat. By Christine ...