The books proved that kids could not only handle grisly, genuinely frightening horror stories—they were champing at the bit for more. “Forget the funny stuff,” Stine said in a 2015 interview ...

Marcus CreditCollection of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Gift of Kimi Nishimura ... By Avi In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful ...

Nobody would argue with the "push to promote children's literacy", nor with the almost 15 million £1 book tokens distributed every March. But WBD has "descended into an annual horror show of ...