Children’s Books

In “Ultraviolet,” by Aida Salazar, and “Mid-Air,” by Alicia D. Williams, the thunderstorm of adolescence splits open a once peaceful sky.

A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.

Alki Zei’s Greek classic, set in the birthplace of democracy in the mid-1930s, feels eerily relevant in today’s America.

Even for the youngest readers, attempted piggy-bank robbery may not cut it.

Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat’s “Made in Asian America” spotlights young people who defy erasure and make their own history.

Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history.

Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.

The children in three illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.

How the bunny became the reigning star of children’s literature.

A boy’s mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared.