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This free public program will take a closer look at the key issues surrounding diversity in the children's books that set out most directly to propose role models for young readers.

The Kerlan Collection's adaptation of the New York Public Library's most viewed exhibition ever continues to draw a wide range of visitors from far and wide and to generate lively discussion [...]

Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration was a long time in the making. This conversation with Gillian Engberg highlights the challenges of crafting a true portrait of an artist whose now-classic [...]

The Bologna Children's Book Fair's exciting, overflow crowd program "Black Books Matter" opened up a vigorous and intensely peronal discussion that attendees from many countries were clearly [...]

Chairing the Carle Honors Committee of the Eric Carle Museum of Museum of Picture Book Art continues to be a deeply satisfying way to help recognize the most innovative efforts of artists, [...]

The Eric Carle Museum celebrates the graphic novel's coming of age with its first exhibition devoted to this flourishing art form, which young people everywhere have wholeheartedly embraced.

To say that interviewing Ursula Nordstrom, Harper's legendary publisher of cutting-edge book for children and teens, was a challenge would be a major understatement; more than a decade would pass [...]

Leonard's work as editor of the Library of America's authoritative edition of Madeleine L'Engle's Kairos Novels really began, in a sense, years earlier during a memorable, touch-and-go encounter [...]

This fall, Leonard joined New York Public librarian Jenny Rosenoff and illustrator Bryan Collier in selecting the year's ten best illustrated children's books of 2018. The daunting process took [...]

Helen Oxenbury is a picture book artist in the grand English tradition of Beatrix Potter and Edward Ardizzone. Her career spans five eventful decades during which books for the youngest ages like [...]