When Pratt Institute’s library opened on its Brooklyn campus in 1896, it included a children’s room, the first to be part of a library’s design. Since then, children’s and youth librarianship has been ...

As a parent, it is not easy to resist the digital tide heading for our children, especially when the world around our youth has become heavily digitized. Tablets, games, animated shows, and ...

Gone are the days when libraries were just a place for borrowing books. Don’t be alarmed, avid readers — your local library is still lined with shelves of books. But did you know that many libraries ...

The Robert Bacon Memorial Children’s Library, also known as the Westbury Children’s Library, is celebrating 100 years of serving and enriching the community with a series of historically fused events ...

In the early 20th century, Franklin K. Matthiews, the librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, embarked on a nation-wide tour to advocate for better standards in children’s literature. At the time, ...

Candice Washington, the founder of the Hyde Park-based nonprofit Brown Books & Paint Brushes, woke up to a gain of 2,000 Instagram followers overnight. The morning after the Black Lives Matter ...

Linda Donigan, children’s librarian at the Bennington Free Library, with an English-language book that has added text in Dari for Afghan refugee children in Bennington on Tuesday, Nov. 22. Photo by ...

It’s a wondrous thing to introduce a child to a beloved book, to read with them as they enter a literary world generations before them have enjoyed. But the nostalgia and thrill of bonding over a book ...