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Two new middle grade novels insist Hans Christian Andersen got it all wrong.

From mouse holes and doughnut holes to a world without night, these five picture books have it all.

Archival photos of children’s reading rooms at the New York Public Library over the years.

In Jessie Gaynor’s debut novel, “The Glow,” read by Gabra Zackman, a P.R. rep immerses herself in the woo-woo world of a cultlike “spiritual retreat,” and its enigmatic leader.

Taboos about what can’t be shown in picture books vary around the world.

A feminist provocateur, she went on to write about the gay rights movement and transformative figures like the first two female Supreme Court justices.

“The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man.” “The when and where do not matter.”

The political artist drew some of the most provocative images of the Trump presidency. “Worm,” his new graphic memoir of emigrating from Cuba to the U.S., skewers the powerful once more.

The dozens of books that T writer Aatish Taseer read before his journey through Bolivia, Mongolia and Iraq, and what he learned from each pilgrimage.

The twin sisters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush published their third picture book this week. They sat down to discuss fighting, writing and chosen family.