As my regular readers are likely to remember, I may have promised at one point a few columns ago that I would be moving away from my animal themes now that our summer reading program is over (which ...

Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books divide down gender lines in two paperback collections: Beautiful Boys (which contains Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop) and Goat Girls (which consists of ...

If you were to tell Brian Lies that he has bats in his belfry, you wouldn't get an argument from him. It's true. Lies is an author-illustrator of children's storybooks. His body of work includes the ...