Dan Gill taught middle school social studies in New Jersey for more than five decades. In his picture book debut, No More Chairs, illustrated by Susan Gal, Gill draws from a childhood encounter with ...

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Picture books provide inspired planning pathways for play and learning across the curriculum. Image: Linda T Harrison. There is an undeniable magic in illustrated books, and story is certainly one of ...

Sometimes a spoon is just a spoon. By Joshua David Stein Joshua David Stein’s children’s books include “Lunch From Home,” “What’s Cooking?” and “Solitary Animals.” The spoon’s best-known role in the ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

These are the real wizards of the literary world. By Pamela Paul Ms. Paul is the editor of the Book Review and the author of several books, including “How to Raise a Reader.” Her first picture book, ...