Visual artists have always had an important place in children’s literature. Watch some leading children’s books illustrators draw, paint, collage, and talk about books with The Times’s children’s ...

"And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the ...

Harry Styles is and has always been a colorful figure. From his teen heartthrob status in the boy band One Direction to successful solo work, the “Watermelon Sugar” singer has managed to amass a large ...

In college he thought he was creating dark, gothic paintings. “And I’d bring it in and people would say, ‘Oh, it looks like a children’s book!’” White said. He went with it. In the years since college ...

Historian Leonard S. Marcus’s new work, Pictured Worlds, surveys 101 of the literary art form’s greatest practitioners. In this excerpt, Marcus delves into the rich global history of picture books and ...

The title page from "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" by Virginia Lee Burton. Burton's award-winning illustrations will be at R. Michelson Galleries, the first time much of this work will be on ...