Kwame Alexander, a poet, and Jerry Craft, an author and illustrator, went to Kenya to encourage reading — and learned a lot in the process.

The winner of the ALA Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement has written more than 100 children's books. Her latest, about the pandemic, is called Garvey in the Dark.

This year has been universally jarring to many of our routines and expectations of 2020. For 12-year-old Elijah Gomez growing up in the historic Grant Park neighborhood, this year catalyzed his love for arts and transformed it into a blog.

Maira Kalman is perhaps best known by adults for the now iconic "New Yorkistan" and other covers for The New Yorker , or a dozen books including A nd...