Council has elected K.C. Boyd, Tatanisha Love, Janice Moore Newsum and Ziba Pérez to serve on the ALA Executive Board.

Born April 27, 1927, in Heiberger, Alabama, she faced segregation head-on from childhood, walking five miles to school while ...

Martin Luther King III, son of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke at Great Neck South High School, the same stage ...

Author Derrick Barnes visited the Project XV Museum in El Paso Thursday night, speaking about his life and reading one of his ...

Time to stock the bookcase! Learn about the book that won the coveted Newbery Medal and other children's and young adult ...

Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s ...

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went ...

The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and ...

The 2025 winner is Carole Boston Weatherford. Her award-winning works include Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, which won ...

The Banaras Lit Fest has announced the longlists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation categories for its 2025 book awards. Besides English, the awards are also given to Hindi language books.

This week we honor a teacher in the General McLane School District with the Golden Apple Award. And it’s not the first time. Scott Hutchison has been teaching for 19 years. The last four at the ...

The Toy Book, the leading trade publication serving the North American toy industry since 1984, has officially revealed the winners of its inaugural Pulse of Play Awards. Timed with The Toy Book’s ...