One of the best parts of being a new grandparent is getting to read children’s books again. For me, it means revisiting those special books I remember reading to my children, and helping to create ...

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"Bruce Springsteen Songs," a luxurious coffee-table book chock-full of Springsteen's recorded lyrics and portraits of the artist as a young man, is due for publication this fall by Avon Books. The ...

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 ...

On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.” As we interviewed children’s publishing professionals while compiling this list, ...

Book distributor Simon & Schuster has released the first few pages that will be part of This Angry Pen of Mine: Recovering the Lost Journals of Layne Staley, a collection of Staley's journal entries ...

If you're looking for new bedtime stories to read to your kids, you may want to check out Stephen King's latest book. Yes, normally that would be a pretty terrible recommendation, but the horror ...

Nobody told Ray Davies that there was a somewhat limited range of topics about which most songwriters were expected to write. Davies, frontman of The Kinks, tended to stray far from the rock and roll ...

The Kinks' "The Journey - Part 3" compiles their greatest hits from the '70s and '80s. The band shifted from conceptual works to a harder rock sound, achieving renewed commercial success. Conflicts ...

If you’ve ever had a hankering to pore over nearly every word Jack White has written over the past two decades, circle Oct. 21 on your calendar for the release of Collected Lyrics and Selected Writing ...