8+ hour, 53+ min ago   (325+ words) The pair had already met at a children’s book conference, where Sharratt was showing a boyhood drawing as part of a talk. It depicted a shopping centre, full of detail, spread across three pages. “I’d got carried away and just…...

7+ hour, 34+ min ago   (362+ words) A decade after writing the first draft, Valrico resident Kim McNeely has published her debut children’s book, While You Were at School, just in time for the back-to-school season. The idea for the book began 10 years ago on her youngest…...

3+ hour, 57+ min ago   (301+ words) As parents and teachers battle to get children off screens and reading for pleasure again, there is one book that is loved by youngsters of all ages – so much so that families admit that their copies are falling apart. Jessie…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (60+ words) 'Is God bigger than a dragon?': How David Henrie turned his 4-year-old’s questions into a kids' book Fox News 'Is God bigger than a dragon?': How David Henrie turned his 4-year-old’s questions into a kids' book The "Wizards Beyond Waverly…...

2+ day, 8+ min ago   (932+ words) Mark Rober has spent years proving that science and engineering don’t have to feel like homework. His enormously popular videos turn subjects such as physics, robotics, and mechanical engineering into spectacular challenges, ingenious pranks, and machines that kids immediately want…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (615+ words) One night I dreamed of a strange far future. In this future someone had made a clone using the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci, and the clone was played by a young Robin Williams. I woke up thinking, “Robin Williams…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (866+ words) Children today move easily between screens, classrooms, games, videos, and books. Digital media is part of ordinary family life, and treating technology as the enemy misses the point. The better question is what kinds of experiences children still need alongside…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (343+ words) Pens down, nerves up, on Sunday 9 August, dozens of young authors filled the Dee Why Council Chambers to find out whose stories had 'caught' the judges' attention in the 2026 Northern Beaches Young Writers' Competition. Hosted by the Northern Beaches Library…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (894+ words) Publishers Weekly New Voices New Rooms: Children’s Book Authors Channeling Their Younger Selves The first booksellers trade show of the fall 2026 season, New Voices New Rooms, took place August 2–5 in Baltimore. The conference was jampacked with programming, with scores…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (485+ words) Publishers Weekly Middle Grade Novels Get a Glow-Up Sprayed edges—better-known as the province of deluxe YA and adult fantasy editions and BookTok collector culture—are making a colorful splash in middle grade. Publishers are giving mysteries, fantasies, and ghost…...