The celebrity children’s book industry is on a roll. The pandemic and post-pandemic years have seen a spike in children’s books from familiar faces—Serena Williams, Channing Tatum, John Cena, Hoda Kotb, Sonia Sotomayor, and Bette Midler, to name a few—that “have infiltrated bedroom bookshelves like a pack of moralistic hobgoblins,” Sloane Crosley writes.

 The celebrity children’s book industry is on a roll. The pandemic and post-pandemic years have seen a spike in children’s books from familiar faces—Serena Williams, Channing Tatum, John Cena, Hoda Kotb, Sonia Sotomayor, and Bette Midler, to name a few—that “have infiltrated bedroom bookshelves like a pack of moralistic hobgoblins,” Sloane Crosley writes.