Common Sense Media has named Murthy to its board of directors, a post that could make the surgeon general a leading face in the San Francisco-based nonprofit’s national and international campaigns to ...

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.