Historian Leonard S. Marcus’s new work, Pictured Worlds, surveys 101 of the literary art form’s greatest practitioners. In this excerpt, Marcus delves into the rich global history of picture books and ...

Difficult and even painful topics have long hidden in plain sight in the world of children’s picture books, with brightly colored drawings and plainspoken text crystallizing difficult subjects into ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Leonard S. Marcus is the author of “Pictured Worlds: ...

Behold, the picture book! The great and glorious literature hiding in humble places all around us: on the bottommost shelves ...

Picture book author Mac Barnett has been named the Library of Congress' new ambassador for young people's literature. He discusses what the role means when engaging kids in reading can be a struggle.