Ten recommendations for fans of Mary Pope Osborne’s time-travel chapter book series. By Travis Jonker Travis Jonker is a ...

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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 ...

These back-to-school reads will help children tackle first-day nerves, new teachers, letters, numbers and more. By Travis Jonker Travis Jonker is a children’s book author and illustrator, and the ...

It has taken more than four decades for a children’s book, now published by the University of New Mexico Press, to finally attract the attention its authors believed it deserved long ago. Since the ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010 ...

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