We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published.

The author of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series shares a handful of titles that have helped shape his sense of humor.

If you're anything like me, you might agree that the book fair was the highlight of the school year. For those of us who grew up in the late ’90s and early ’00s, there were dozens of super-popular ...