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  "I take kids seriously, they have a lot of things wrong. They protect their parents. Children are brave little creatures." (abou...

CASTSLE IMAGE   Built to Last brings together revised versions of three of David Macaulay's classic works about architectural structure...

Coming to a bookstore near you, The Little Prince as a graphic novel!   ....drawings by acclaimed French cartoonist Joann Sfar. HMH will rel...

Curious pages is an great blog highlighting strange, interesting and sometimes innapropriate kids' books. Some great illustrations. I f...

"I really loved living in that gypsy caravan. I loved it especially in the evenings when I was tucked up in my bunk and my father was ...

"Curious George, as it might sound if read by eccentric, dark and strangely literal German director Werner Herzog":

... I live at 25 W 68th Street. It's an old apartment building. But it's got one of the best elevators in NYC. ...Our apartment is...

For some reason, we have two copies of "Where the Sidewalk Ends" at our house. I think one was my wife's and one was mine. But...

There will be a new Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin book published Monday! Is this a great idea, or a big mistake? The new book was co...

At least some hate the book The Giving Tree . Maybe they really like Where the Sidewalk Ends , or the song Boy Named Sue . The responses by...

Anyone heard of these Wimpy Kid books? They are taking the 12 year old boys by storm. My son is a bit young for them, but I can tell he i...

N.D. Wilson explains why he writes books for children : ...I have children, I love children, and imaginations need food. The world is big. ...

" I don't trust a man who makes toys in a land where children are forbidden . " The Enquirer reports that the Consumer Product...

A friend recommended we get a Charlie and Lola DVD because the boy and girl are similar in age to our kids. But the best part about it is t...

When I think of my favorite things Cincinnati, Charley Harper is pretty far up the list. When I was a kid, I recall the Cincinnati Nature Ce...

We recieved this book as a gift last year, and the kids really like it. The illustrator, CF Payne is a Miami Grad, and a Cincinnati residen...

Winners of the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize were named at an awards ceremony in London yesterday. The two books honored were: For Kids 6...

New editions of this 61 year old children's classic will have the cigarette photoshopped out of the illustrator's picture on the bac...

Boy and Dog Drawing   See the William Steig webpage . He is the author of The Amazing Bone, Dr. DeSoto, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and ...

An innocent little movie from 1971, narrated by Ringo Starr, with music by Harry Nilsson , about a little boy, Oblio, and his dog Arrow, wh...