Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

The title page from "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" by Virginia Lee Burton. Burton's award-winning illustrations will be at R. Michelson Galleries, the first time much of this work will be on ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Ayala Museum presents a collection of visuals that have livened up the pages of Filipino children’s books in an exhibition titled “20 Taon: Celebrating 20 Years of Philippine ...

Visual artists have always had an important place in children’s literature. Watch some leading children’s books illustrators draw, paint, collage, and talk about books with The Times’s children’s ...

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is asking children to draw illustrations for her forthcoming fantasy book, The Ickabog. Rowling is publishing the story online for free as a gift for children who are ...

Children’s book illustrator Lee White shares his creative process. Children’s book illustrator Lee White shares his creative process of finding the backstory and adding detail to a book’s characters.

Amid our modern debates about life’s big, important topics – economic policy, environmental sustainability, social identity, scientific progress, healthcare – there is one thing about which most ...

PORTSMOUTH — Illustrators are the true wizards of the children’s literature world, and fourth-grader Lea McCarthy of Rye knows it. She remembers the cozy bedroom in “Goodnight Moon” and the mouse ...

Mohammad-Ali Bani-Asadi will be competing at the exhibition with his works for the book “Birds and the Sky” written by Farideh Farjam. Published by Iran’s Institute for Intellectual Development ...

As a writer of children’s books, I am often asked why there are so many ‘woke’ books for kids all of a sudden. Why can’t children’s books just be fun? Do kids have to hear about racism at bedtime? Or ...