What should you read next? Or give your family and friends for Christmas? A good book, of whatever kind, is the antidote to boredom, screen-time and “brain rot” – but with more than 200,000 new titles ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

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Henry David Thoreau, author of “Walden” and famed as one of America’s first environmentalist authors, once said, “Books are the treasure wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and ...

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you the year's best picture books, books for Percy Jackson fans, picture books that celebrate gratitude, great books for toddlers, bedtime reads, ...

“A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short,” wrote Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher of the 19th century. People are living longer than they did in ...