Childrens Books

Rick Richter was the president of the children’s division at Simon and Schuster until last December, when he was laid off. But instead of crumpling, he decided to rekindle an old passion — music. Produced by Gretta Cohn.

Forty-eight years ago, Donald J. Sobol put sneakers on Sherlock Holmes and set him in small-town America. Produced by Studio 360’s Derek John.

Rebecca Stead just won the Newbery Medal for her children’s novel When You Reach Me. Stead tells Kurt how she based her heroine, a sixth-grader named Miranda, on her own latchkey childhood in gritty 1970s New York City. There’s a time travel twist to the plot too: when Miranda receives anonymous notes instructing her on […]

High Maintenance returns, Bryan Cranston yells at children, and Too Many Cooks owns the Internet.