On a sunny April day in 1993, I was finishing the art for "Arthur’s New Puppy," another book in my series, when the phone rang. It was Carol Greenwald, a producer at WGBH, the Boston-based public ...

Arthur, an altar server, aims high. He dreams of being perfect, just like Jesus. While others kids might offer up candy and video games for Lent, not Arthur. He plans to give up making mistakes. And ...

I can think of few better ways to get people’s backs up than to pronounce a list of the 50 best children’s books of all time. The books we read when we are very young retain a vital claim on our adult ...