The decline in American literacy rates is creating a generation with weaker critical thinking skills as reading for pleasure hits a 40-year low despite billions in education spending.

It’s been a good 20 years since I began writing about children’s books for The Wall Street Journal. To mark the milestone, my editors requested—perversely, if you ask me—that I select the ...

Sir Michael Morpurgo has urged children’s authors to stop sugar-coating war in their books. The best-selling author, 81, said children should not be “patronised” about challenging periods of history ...

The wonderful screenplay for Kensuke’s Kingdom, written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and produced by Lupus Films, deals with the ...

"Macbeth" for babies? "War and Peace" for toddlers? Utah author Jennifer Adams creates board books that introduce icons of ...

Hundreds of thousands out of school More than 650,000 students have had no access to education since the start of the war, according to the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF.

Books coming out tend to look the same and deal with the same issues. One parent can object and make your book irrelevant. The bans affect what is published, as do politics, like the war in Gaza.” ...

The film and book were based on the holiday-anti-war classic, “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” that Ono’s parents released in 1971. Sean was born to John Lennon and Yoko Ono four years later.