Belle’s teacher, having told her class to draw an owl, holds up Belle’s finished painting for the other kids to see and wonders how she managed to make his eyes so wise. “I shrugged and ...

A sampling of some worthwhile 2024 picture books that didn’t make it into the column last year but, nevertheless, deserve ...

Each year we publish more than 175 new books for adults, families, and children on a wide range of nonfiction subjects from animals to travel, cartography to history, fun facts to moving stories.