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Before a boy wizard bounced him from his post, R.L. Stine was once the best-selling children's book author of all time. And while his scary stories reigned supreme in kids' hearts, they sat at number 16 on the American Library Association's most challenged books of the 1990s . The kids loved...

" Corduroy " turns 40 this year. The beloved children's book, which introduced us to a cuddly teddy bear searching for a new button for his suspenders and a home to call his own, was written in 1968 by Don Freeman. Your parents probably read it to you when you were young. Most likely, you...

I love that Jennifer Garner takes Violet to the freaking public library. That's awesome. They could easily buy every book in the children's section. They could have the books delivered. Hell, they could probably have the authors over for coffee. They choose to be normal, and in Hollywood that's...

I never thought I'd be one to sing the praises of Young Goodman Brown , The Canterbury Tales , Billy Budd, or any of the classics forced upon me as a freshman in high school. (In my defense, I was 14, and if you asked me then who I considered to be a literary genius, my answer would have been Neil Peart...

It's my favorite part of a new year: the enumerating, the categorizing, the criticizing. It's Award Season! And it's happening in the blogosphere and it's happening to children's and young adult literature, as the short lists are out for the Cybils . Eight categories, five finalists in each (ten for...