Friendship seems like a simple thing, but it encompasses so much. Making friends is at the heart of childhood, and these new picture books explore how young people make connections despite barriers of ...

Now students, take out a piece of notebook paper and write your name in the top left-hand corner. Before you sit three newly released children's picture books. Each tells a story about perseverance.

Works by Jane Godwin, Joshua David Stein and Matthew Diffee find new lenses through which to explore an old subject, in lovely and surprising ways. By Laurel Snyder Laurel Snyder is the author of many ...