Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue! (Chronicle, Sept.; words by Sherri Duskey Rinker; $18.99; 100,000-copy announced first printing) Your House Is Not Just a House (Clarion, out now; illus.

This activity highlights the work that an author and illustrator do to build appreciation. This activity helps children appreciate a book by identifying the author and illustrator, and explaining what ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

NORWALK, Connecticut (WABC) -- Author and illustrator Ian Woodward Falconer, known for his "Olivia" book series for children, has died. Falconer's lawyer and agent Conrad M. Rippy said Falconer died ...

Award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems' creative spark elevated him to the big time among children's book creators, but his latest work takes us into teeny-weeny territory. Three of his books ...

Now Christie’s is riding the current wave of interest by offering a collection of wide-ranging artworks that inspired the artist and author throughout his life, as well as artworks by the artist ...

The books follow a team of bat-swinging, base-running animals called the Fernwood Valley Fuzzies as they take on one goofy opponent after another, including, in the recently released fifth volume, ...

Author and illustrator Chris Haughton has been named the eighth Laureate na nÓg, Ireland's Children's Literature Laureate, at ...

A Mart and a bird face the aftermath of a destructive wildfire. That's the premise of the new children's book once upon a forest, capturing a world steeped in nature, the book's story is told solely ...

NEW YORK (AP) — "Babar" author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died.