Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Jennifer Krauss is the children’s books editor at the Book Review.

This is the best day of my life.” “Today is my favorite day of school.” These are just some of the things we heard from kids ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The events of this year—a global pandemic, a reckoning with racist violence and oppression, a tumultuous presidential election—have touched everyone’s lives, children and teenagers included. And there ...

Renaissance Learning’s annual look at what students are reading yields two sobering findings about adolescents’ choices when they’re choosing supplemental, or “outside,” reading: High school students ...