Working with ChatGPT to create a custom children's book was an exercise in a lot of back and forth to get it right -- and a second tool to put it all together. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist ...

JD Vance says he used Grok to help make a custom version of the "Who Would Win?" children's book. "I used Grok to make the actual images," Vance said. The VP says that he's usually "not an AI guy" but ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

While some people love the chance to get creative with book week costumes, others see it as an expensive chore. Costume libraries are offering outfits to students to make sure everyone is included.

“Check my grammar,” Tori Amos says, serious and sudden, when debating the correct use of “was” and “were.” “My mother just came down from the great pub in the sky and said, ‘Darling, check your ...

After years of culture war battles in school and public libraries, the campaign by conservative-leaning "parent rights" groups has succeeded in casting a nationwide chill over the market for ...

In 1952, a book appeared that redefined children’s literature. “A lap is so you don’t get crumbs on the floor,” it proclaimed. “A mustache is to wear on Halloween. A hat is to wear on a train.” The ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said guns are not to blame for the rise in school shootings, ...