Children's Books

Amid a national movement to update instruction to match what science says about learning to read, Illinois has adopted a blueprint to improve reading skills among its youth.

The Quincy Public Library wants to bring back its bookmobile. The goal is to provide more access to books and improve literacy in the area.

The Noir Bookshop is placing a book vending machine in book deserts around St. Louis beginning next month to boost literacy in communities of color.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program is now statewide in Missouri. The program provides children with a free book in the mail each month until their fifth birthday. The goal is to nurture a love of reading and improve literacy.

The new richly illustrated children’s book focuses on a young girl named Ada, who learns to make a classic West African dish when her grandparents visit from Nigeria.

Materials made by We Stories are available for free until June 30.

The new children’s book “This Is Not My Home” was written by Washington University undergraduates and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

The book “A New Holiday” explores finding joy during the holiday season while grieving the loss of a loved one.

Author Ibram X. Kendi and St. Louis artist Cbabi Bayoc discuss their recent collaboration on the children’s book “Goodnight Racism.”

The beloved children's book "The Snowy Day" is now “The Glowy Snowy Day,” a pandemic-safe drive-thru puppet experience. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis' Adena Varner explained the impetus for this joint production with Kansas City-based StoneLion Puppet Theatre, which opens soon on the campus of Webster University.