Some of the most important and formative books from a person’s childhood tend to be less than 100 pages, or even much, much shorter. Yet, the stories they tell are brimming with enough imagination to ...

Zilla Jones is a Winnipeg author and has been a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize on four occasions, and the CBC ...

Read personal narrative examples in children’s books, including picture books and middle grade books, as mentor texts for your own writing and to build empathy for the lives of others. Personal ...

It’s been a good 20 years since I began writing about children’s books for The Wall Street Journal. To mark the milestone, my editors requested—perversely, if you ask me—that I select the 20 best ...

This week’s Bookshelf is about two new books, a collection of eerie short stories and a novel about gentrification in Atlanta, plus a celebration of books for young readers. Southern gothic. Julia ...

My books have been published by Allen & Unwin and Penguin Random House, both of whom are mentioned in this article. I currently supervise Rebecca Lim's PhD at Monash University. I have been an editor ...

"The Secret of Sparkes'Cove" is a children's book written under the pseudonym Noah D. Carver by Keith M. Leonard, a resident ...