Knock every kid (and most of the pretend grown-ups) off your shopping list with one trip to the bookstore (and you've still got three shopping days until Christmas).

The Lonely Phone Book is a funny, nostalgic, techno-phobe new book for kids.

Children's publishers are betting on the iPad. But I'm still keeping mine on a high shelf.

The girls of the Babysitters Club were 13 when Kristy first had her "Great Idea." Were they baby-sitting or aiding and abetting parents in endangering the welfare of a child?

Lavish descriptions of feasts filled the books we read as kids, but the reality was never as good as it sounded. Why Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and C.S. Lewis could have moonlighted writing menus.

Our review of the new movie, and other kids' fare.