The best children’s books have always provided a powerful way for kids to put themselves in other people’s lives—from the prairie of Laura Ingalls to the world of wizards in Harry Potter. It’s in that ...

Challenging the norms, one book at a time. For two years I spent my Fridays with an incredible young girl who I met through The Pyjama Foundation – an organisation that pairs children in foster care ...

Tulsa author and illustrator Zuri Louis releases “I See Colors: A Children’s Book About Skin,” a vibrant, felt-illustrated book that helps children understand and celebrate racial diversity. TULSA, ...

Cara Byrne, an English lecturer and research advisor on diverse children’s literature at the Schubert Center for Child Studies, will lead a family-friendly discussion of diversity in illustrated ...

In recent years, children’s books have made a lot of progress in becoming more varied. The number of books featuring diverse authors, illustrators, and characters has grown- giving children a chance ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Two new children's books are hitting the shelves, hoping to fill gaps in the marketplace and teach kids to embrace everyone's diverse cultures. One book is written by a ...

The gymnasium was fairly quiet, for once. In my two weeks as a before-and-after-school daycare director in a Detroit public school, I had found that mornings with paper and crayons were the most ...

Emu dads raise babies all on their own, incubating eggs for eight weeks, but ruby-throated hummingbird moms take care of their offspring solo. Lots of baby black swans grow up with two dads while ...

The enduring traditions of the High Holiday season take shape across time and place in the latest crop of children’s books about Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. This year’s books transport ...

Terms like diversity and inclusivity and the use of gender-neutral pronouns may be fighting words in today’s culture wars, but a handful of religion publishers with forthcoming Bible-centered books ...