Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day ...

Somewhere in the middle decades of the 20th century, advanced poetic taste decided that sentimentalism in general, and the sentimentalism of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) in particular, was ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Four years later, she’s helping children find their voice with her new picture book, ...

(FOX40.COM) — MOSAIC Children’s Museum will be displaying a poem written by a 13-year-old through February in honor of Black ...

She wrote whimsical tales about the little things in a child’s life. “A House Is a House for Me” won a National Book Award. By Neil Genzlinger Mary Ann Hoberman, whose dozens of rhyme-filled books for ...

Here are the most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by The Times’s children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Rather than follow the Anglocentric pattern of apple, ball and cat, this ...

Lisa Marie Presley's life and legacy was honored on Sunday morning at an emotional memorial service held at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. Among the many celebrities and famous figures who spoke ...

LONDON — Allan Ahlberg, the acclaimed British author behind more than 150 beloved children’s books, including “Each Peach Pear Plum,” “Peepo!” and “The Jolly Postman,” has died at 87, the Associated ...