Opinion

Ukrainian children’s books can help Americans understand the war in Ukraine and its impact.

This month, I’m sharing some personal research combining two great passions: gardening and ­libraries. The culmination of my Master Gardener training, my capstone project explores how public libraries make ideal partners in promoting gardening and sustainable, organic practices.

What Are You? author Christian Trimmer shares what it was like to grow up as mixed race—Asian and white—and how to help multiracial kids address their questions of identity.

What do you do when trustees pressure a library to cut summer programming due to book challenges? Pat Scales answers that question and more.  

The challenger claimed that the graphic novel "damaged souls." The authors have several things to say in response.

On the occasion of receiving the 2023 Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring his significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens, Jason Reynolds took the reins on SLJ's Instagram. Here's the full AMA, your feel-good watch of the day.

Did booksellers throw librarians under the bus regarding censorship? Imagining there was more to the story out of ABA's Winter Institute, SLJ editor in chief Kathy Ishizuka explores common ground between bookstores and libraries and finds that when book people work together, good things can happen.

It’s some visual. The literal erasure of the word “racism” and by extension the lived experience of more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry and their descendants. Among them: Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of Love in the Library—who received those amendments to her picture book by a Scholastic editor—and myself.

In neighborhoods around the country, people are joining together to steward the soil, fight hunger, promote well-being, celebrate culture, and forge community ties through seed saving.