What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In the realm of beloved children's books that are worth a ton of money, there are very few that have joined the million dollar plus club.

In 1946, an award-winning author wrote one of the first children’s books about racism. The main character was a young African American girl, a Girl Scout Brownie with pigtails. Carla Hayden, a ...

IF YOU JUDGE how well-read someone is by the number of books they get through, your correspondent is a veritable bibliophage. Most of the books are around 30 pages long and generously illustrated.

In times of change, the future of children’s bookselling arguably lies in how stores have refined or reinterpreted longstanding programs, such as author events, book fairs, and subscription book boxes ...