Picture Books

Women's Equality Day, celebrated on August 26th, commemorates the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. In these titles, mothers and grandmothers take their daughters and granddaughters along with them to polls, to show the children the importance of exercising the hard-won right for women to vote.

Get your purchase list out and make sure you include these picture books; we've found dozens of contenders for this year's Best Books collection.

At the Newbery Caldecott Legacy Awards Banquet during ALA Annual, Caldecott winner Vashti Harrison and Newbery Medalist Dave Eggers shared previously unknown, very personal stories about the difficult events that led to the creation of their award-winning books.

In these two picture books, a couple of different illustrators have shared their creative vision for Emily Dickinson’s famous poem, “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers.”

This year's Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners include Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith, Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson, The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day, and Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford.

Librarians and authors highlight their most eagerly anticipated panels and programs at ALA Annual in San Diego.

The New York Times best-selling author and Caldecott Honor-awarded picture book illustrator talks with School Library Journal about creating the Mo Willems Workshop channel and how librarians can use it with their students.

LeBron James teams up with illustrator Niña Mata once again for his latest children’s book: I Am More Than. The NBA star shares the sense of responsibility he carries when writing children’s books, and why public libraries are irreplaceable.

These titles take a look at two traditions around the Muslim holiday that commemorates the story of Ibrahim (Abraham).