Cotsen Children's Library: Creepy Crawlies: Insects in Picture Books

Scissors, glue, and an old book. Punches, crimpers, and rulers. Kids gather their tools and get set to create relief sculptures by deconstructing books.

Before Hamilton, Lin Manuel-Miranda gained fame with In the Heights. A study guide prepares theater goers for a performance of the musical about a group of friends living in the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights....

Build beautiful books in whatever style you'd like with an intuitive and adaptable app for constructing books. Kids can add images, drawings, text, and audio to make books about any subject. When complete, learners can wrap up the...

Class members use digital cameras, computers, laser printers, and booklet making supplies to create their own page for a class memory book.

Article presents a critical analysis of the depiction of slavery in the children's book, A Fine Dessert.

Before picture books and animated videos, there were hand-copied manuscripts whose margins were filled with fantastic images. A short video examines the tradition of illuminating books and considers what some of the more bizarre images...

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Every Day Gems: A Collection of New Music by R. B. Mahaffey (c1885), a collection of music for public schools.

Students collaborate to create a children's book. In this visual arts lesson, student study the components and procedures that go into making a children's book including the shape, size. layout, biographical information about the author,...

Some medieval readers preferred pretty pictures and shiny decorations in their books. Not only did the sparkling page appeal to them, it also proved their economic status, or that the gift they gave was special. View pictures of this...