When Robert Caro, the legendary political journalist-historian, was a young investigative reporter at the crusading, liberal New York newspaper Newsday, a top editor gave him advice on how to dig…Continue Reading →
Mo Willems has won Caldecott Honors three times for his picture books for children—beginning with 2003’s “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!”—and Emmys six times for his previous work…Continue Reading →
Tomi Ungerer, who died in February, was one of the great fabulists and weirdoes of children’s book illustration. And his razor sharp drawn line punctuated by patches of rich black…Continue Reading →
“Adele,” the 2014 novel by French-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani, finally arrives in translation for the United States. Adele is bored by her job as a globetrotting reporter, bored with her…Continue Reading →
After a night of partying, a college student doesn’t wake up the next morning, or the next. She just sleeps and sleeps. In Karen Thompson Walker’s novel “The Dreamers” (Random House),…Continue Reading →
This week the American Library Association announced that Boston artist Ekua Holmes had again won its Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books…Continue Reading →
In 1970, “Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book of Animals” was published, the first in a long line of how-to draw books by the Ipswich author that have gone on to inspire…Continue Reading →
At the end of each year, the Boston Public Library releases its list of the year’s most borrowed books, offering a window into the year’s favorite reads. Most borrowed adult…Continue Reading →
“Attention Massachusetts/I have ascended above you,” Franklin Einspruch writes across a watery painting of clouds that opens his book “Cloud on a Mountain: Comics Poems from Greylock.” Comics poetry is…Continue Reading →
The American Revolution is in its fifth year in Nathaniel Philbrick’s spirited new history, “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown” (Viking), his…Continue Reading →