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"Mr. Chickee's Funny Money"

Have you ever seen a quadrillion dollar bill with a picture of James Brown on the front?

Matt de la Peña: How winning the Newbery gives authors freedom to tell the stories they want to tell

Award-winning author Matt de la Peña talks about the freedom he has had to write about topics that he might not have been able to tackle before winning the Newbery Award.

"The All-White World of American Children's Books"

In the 1960s, there was fierce debate about whether or not children’s book publishers were producing enough books that represented America’s multiracial makeup.

Reaching reluctant readers

Sometimes kids aren’t reading because they can’t find themselves in the stories.

Getting published

Though she’d studied illustration in college, it took Grace Lin a while to get published.

Imagining Dark Is Rising

Cooper wrote down the last half page of the very last book in the Dark Is Rising series and then put it away.

Matching books to reading level and emotional level

Teachers should provide a balanced mix of reading material that matches a student’s reading level, interest level, and emotional level.

How I became a basketball fan

Gene Luen Yang shares how reading Outside the Paint by Kathleen Yep helped him become a basketball fan.

Reduce, reduce, reduce

Eric Carle explains that while his final product may look simple, it didn’t start out that way.

Thunder is just a noise

Patricia Polacco braved the kicking cow, scratching chicken, and ominous thunder to gather ingredients for her grandmother’s Thunder Cake.

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