Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the great beyond. From “The Spaceman.”Credit...Randy Cecil Supported by ...

Exiting its spaceship, the itinerant spaceman of this picture book’s title immediately deems this latest stop on a soil-collection tour to be “a rather ordinary planet.” But as the being loses its ...

There’s a special delight for children in comical picture books that say one thing and mean another—that is, when the words depart from the pictures in such a way that a child feels let in on the joke ...