Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, former President Barack Obama paid a visit to the Bessie Coleman Branch of the Chicago Public Library. Sitting before a ...

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 ...

As these biographies show, Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage all used silence to great effect. By Matthew Burgess Matthew Burgess is the author of 15 picture books, including biographies of E ...