If you’re a parent, have a computer and colored pencils, you have probably considered writing a children’s book. It’s nowhere as easy as it seems. Best-selling children’s writer Anna ...

Jesse Byrd’s life is the stuff of storybooks. The youngster with dual loves of reading and basketball grew up — and up and up, until he was 6-foot-8 — and went away to college to earn a… ...

Welcome to “How I Became,” the Lifehacker series where I ask real people how they really got their jobs. This week I'm chatting with Aubre Andrus, an award-winning children's book author.She ...

Derrick Barnes felt there wasn't wide enough representation of Black people in the books he read as a kid. The Kansas City ...

Sophie Clarke chats to Jane Riordan about taking on AA Milne's beloved characters and the importance of storytelling events ...

Lori Glaser-Jester knows what it feels like to lose a child. She lost her son, Kaleb, at age 5 to Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. To help her family and other families going through the loss of a ...

Children's books are, paradoxically, one of the most important forms of writing we have, and the most overlooked. It is children's authors who are what Shelley called "the unacknowledged ...

In Grace Lin’s books, Asian and Asian-American children go on adventures big and small, encountering everything from dim sum to enchanted kingdoms. Since she began writing and illustrating for ...

At last, after book sales of 27 million, Terry Pratchett has won a literary award. And not just any old gong, but the prestigious Carnegie Medal for children's literature. Robert Hanks talks to ...