Mac Barnett, the new national ambassador for young people’s literature, explores innovative storytelling hiding in humble places all around us. Behold, the picture book! The great and glorious ...

Today The Atlantic launches “65 Essential Children’s Books,” a new editorial project that brings together important ...

The author of more than 60 books for young readers and 2011’s “Picture Book Manifesto” that challenged creators and their publishers to energize the category, Barnett became the 2025–2026 national ...

Picture book author Mac Barnett has been named the Library of Congress' new ambassador for young people's literature. He discusses what the role means when engaging kids in reading can be a struggle.

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

A boy unearths a treasure trove of adjectives, and a strange word discovered by a scholar becomes an overnight sensation. From “A Chest Full of Words.”Credit...Rebecca Gugger and Simon Röthlisberger ...

Behold, the picture book! The great and glorious literature hiding in humble places all around us: on the bottommost shelves ...