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Zoologist Charles Stiles discovered a new species of hookworm: Necator ­americanus , the tit...

To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood exhibit at the ICA

Betsy Bird argues that Meghan McCarthys Action! exemplifies the Caldecott definiton of distinguished — googly eyes and all.

The time is the future. The “Powers-That-Be” are kidnapping children—using a meteorological weapon of windstorms that sweep them up, to then be sold to mountain trolls for profit. Parents are instructed to protect their offspring (the “youngers”) by keeping them imprisoned inside day and night.

Walter (a mouse-like creature) and Xavier (who resembles a duck) do everything together, including boating (their canoe has “X + W” c...

From the November/December 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Last Saturday the Boston Book Festival was back in-person (yay) for the first time since 2019, and people turned out in droves to enjoy the beautiful weather and a day full of wonderful discussion about books for the young and the young at heart.

A Massachusetts high school junior started the Laundromat Libraries project to share his love of reading with kids who might not have ready access to books. We asked him about how he turned a great idea into reality and what he’s learned since launching his project.

Scot Smith on how the picture-book biography Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement, illustrated by debut picture-book artist Janelle Washington, should be a contender for the Caldecott.

This is a moving walk through African American history, via Weatherford’s expansion of the lyrics of a well-known Negro spiritual and...