The Design Icon Who Inspires Oprah and Nancy Meyers An interview with Rose Tarlow on the re-release of her book A Private House, 24 years after its original publication Curbed 4/18/2024
A Year of Books Sibling sleuths, superpower woes, porta-potty disasters. All that, plus more in this list of 12 books your kids will want to read in 2024. NYT Kids 1/28/2024
Holiday Books for Children 2023 From a 200th-anniversary edition of Clement C. Moore’s Christmas Eve tale to lightheartedly loopy poems for every day of the year. NYT Book Review 12/1/2023
Holiday Books for Children 2022 From remixed nursery rhymes to whimsical, philosophical comics. NYT Book Review 12/2/2022
Sweetness and BlightSkandar and the Unicorn Thief by debut author A. F. Steadman shatters the unicorn myth. NYT Book Review 5/6/2022
Help! I Need a Book! A sprawling flow chart for a book-themed edition of the New York Times Kids section that lets young readers find the path to their next great read. NYT Kids 1/30/2022
Holiday Books for Children 2021 From a towering mousse cake to the ultimate shaggy dog story, eight surefire hits for young readers. NYT Book Review 12/5/2021
New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books 2021 Since 1952, the Times has convened a rotating annual panel of three expert judges who consider every illustrated children’s book published that year in the country. The judges select the 10 winners purely on the basis of artistic merit. On the 2021 panel were myself; Jessica Agudelo, a youth collections librarian at the New York Public Library; and Paul O. Zelinsky, a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator. We reveal the winning books here: NYT Book Review 11/12/21
Mrs. Little: An Obsession with Children’s Books This is a blog I started in 2012. I named it after one of my favorite books, Stuart Little, because I often found myself wondering about Stuart’s mother. (How did she feel about having a mouse child?) This is a mostly neglected blog these days but if you’re a fan of Roald Dahl, William Steig, Harriet the Spy, the Little House on the Prairie books, The Phantom Tollbooth and so on, take a look. mrslittle.com
Beginner’s Pluck: Ellen Oh’s middle grade novel, Finding Junie Kim, is not a fantasy. NYT Book Review 6/4/21
Fantastic, Flavor-Filled Food Novels for Kids A freshly butchered pig’s tail cooked over coals. Liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches. Cold meat pie with hard-boiled eggs buried inside like treasures. If you grew up reading classic middle-grade novels you probably know exactly where these foods… NYT Book Review 11/6/20
Beloved Authors on their Favorite Childhood Books (aka 100 Books to Inspire Your Kids) Jacqueline Woodson, Ann M. Martin, Sandra Boynton, Daniel Handler, Jenny Han, Kate DiCamillo, David Macaulay, Tomie de Paola and others discuss the books that first opened their eyes to the joy of reading. Parents magazine 10/20
The Korean-American Kids in These Books Bust Stereotypes When I was a kid growing up on Long Island in the late ’70s, certain smarty-pants types were happy to share their knowledge of Asia. If you told them you were Chinese you might get the tried-and-true “Ching-chong!” If you were Japanese… NYT Book Review 9/9/19
Enticing Books for Every Kid This Holiday Season Before children learn to read, they learn to decipher pictures: smiling faces, furry animals, snowflakes. Even as they become fluid readers, using their imaginations to conjure images that the words leave out, that hunger for satisfying visuals… NYT Book Review 11/27/19
Wild Things So much of early childhood is about animals. We dress toddlers in T-shirts emblazoned with zoo creatures, teach them songs about livestock and tuck them in with stuffed bunnies. Their picture books feature peace-loving bulls, cookie-loving mice and oversize red dogs… NYT Book Review 11/9/18
In New Novels for Kids, Dangerous Journeys and Hockey Madness How does it feel to almost die of thirst? Most readers will never know, though this riveting book will make many feel as if they’ve had a taste of it. Twelve-year-old Nisha and her family, refugees headed for the border of India, are… NYT Book Review 2/23/18
Love and Other Ties That Bind in This Fall’s Y.A. Novels We’ve heard all the sayings: Family comes first. Family is forever. You can’t choose your family! But the reality isn’t always so simple. Benway’s unforgettable novel explores the paradoxes and entanglements of unconventional families… NYT Book Review 11/6/17
In These New Activity Books for Kids, Staying Within the Lines Is Decidedly Optional Give a kid a piece of paper and some crayons with the directive to “draw something,” and the result might be a blank stare. But an activity book packed with doodling prompts, stickers, puzzles, hidden pictures, coloring pages or… NYT Book Review 6/2/17
Doctor of Letters Author and surgeon Atul Gawande gives medical writing a shot in the arm. W magazine 4/2007
Page Turner After the passing of his longtime coeditor, Robert Silvers goes it alone at The New York Review of Books W magazine 10/2006
Big Tipper The Tipping Point launched Malcolm Gladwell to fame. Will his new book send him over the top? W magazine 1/2005