Whether a furry friend is little and lovable like a pet or big and best seen from afar like a lion, kids are drawn to animals. For the pet-lover or animal enthusiast in your family, these authors tell ...

“Take James Herriot, put him in inner-city Los Angeles in the early 1990s, and have him work on snakes, lions, and birds instead of farm animals—that’s Doug Mader’s story,” says Roark, founder of the ...

Do your children want to find nonfiction and fiction children’s books about endangered animals? Do your kids know that some animal species are extinct? And that more are in danger of extinction? The U ...

Kids love animals—so it makes sense that they love animal books, too, like these nonfiction picture books and middle grade books. These nonfiction book picks for PreK–7 are packed with rich vocabulary ...

Lev Grossman, Time magazine’s book critic, was an informed and enthusiastic moderator for the May 29th BEA panel on animal fantasy in children’s books. His daughter is a big fan of the genre, he said, ...

The last wolves disappeared from the vastness of Yellowstone National Park about a century ago. Without the apex predators, the park’s ecosystem changed in dramatic ways. Unculled herds of elk ...

This second edition of Bob Hughes's Evolutionary Playwork is an outstanding book that should be read carefully by anyone who's interested in play, and then read again and again. Its fourteen chapters, ...

The feral child — a child raised by wild animals — is common in myth and folklore. Feral children are typically thought of as having been raised without human parental contact. A boy or girl raised by ...

“The bird was dead when the children found it.” So begins the 1938 picture book, The Dead Bird, for young children by Margaret Wise Brown. Brown understood the significance of a young child’s early ...