"You're getting too old for a stuffed animal," young Jonathan's parents tell him. "So we traded your bear for a toaster." Jonathan doesn't argue; instead, he drifts down to the wharf to visit the Big ...

During her long and rich literary life, Charlotte Zolotow (1915–2013) authored 70 picture books that were released by more than 20 houses, including Harper & Row, where she was an editor and then ...

Philip C. Stead's new novel has such a long title. I have to take a breath to utter it - "A Potion, A Powder, A Little Bit Of Magic: Or, Like Lightning In An Umbrella Storm, A Story Out Of Order." But ...