Whether a furry friend is little and lovable like a pet or big and best seen from afar like a lion, kids are drawn to animals. For the pet-lover or animal enthusiast in your family, these authors tell ...

“Take James Herriot, put him in inner-city Los Angeles in the early 1990s, and have him work on snakes, lions, and birds instead of farm animals—that’s Doug Mader’s story,” says Roark, founder of the ...

Do your children want to find nonfiction and fiction children’s books about endangered animals? Do your kids know that some animal species are extinct? And that more are in danger of extinction? The U ...

Kids love animals—so it makes sense that they love animal books, too, like these nonfiction picture books and middle grade books. These nonfiction book picks for PreK–7 are packed with rich vocabulary ...

Lev Grossman, Time magazine’s book critic, was an informed and enthusiastic moderator for the May 29th BEA panel on animal fantasy in children’s books. His daughter is a big fan of the genre, he said, ...

If you could choose to be any animal, bird or fish — any living creature in nature, free on Earth — what would it be? The answers from youngsters ages 8 to 12 might surprise you. “Out of the mouths of ...

Zoologists and brothers, Chris and Martin Kratt, from the PBS KIDS show Wild Kratts share their best tips. Science is awesome. Sometimes, it just takes a nudge to get our TV-loving kids to realize how ...