DO YOU know the name of the mountain in The Hobbit and the nickname for Harry Potter’s Forbidden Forest? This nostalgic quiz will test your knowledge on children’s books – particularly ...

At a recent funeral, a friend shared a Louise Bogan poem she had also read aloud at the bedside of her dying mother. Books offer us nuance, meaning, and things to “weigh and consider,” in the ...

She added that books can create a desire in children to try things and as ... than a third like to read to themselves, compared to 21% who prefer when their parents read aloud to them.

From quilters to Black history, book and Native American festivals, there's plenty to do this weekend in the Daytona Beach ...

Start planning your trip to Alaska with kids with this comprehensive guide: things to do in Alaska with kids, Alaska travel ...

Reading aloud creates higher intelligence and expanded ... Make it fun! Pick up The Wild Things book and read it under a bridge, or pick up a book about the invention of ice cream and have a ...

In the penultimate instalment of her series on women’s writing, Paula McGrath focuses on the second half of the 1990s ...

About five years ago, her nest newly empty and her schedule freer than it had been in decades, Paula Whyman began reading books about backyard ... a small meadow became wild, shaggy and mountain ...

Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

The Summerville Book Festival happens this Saturday, Feb. 15. As promised, here’s a sneak peek at the free programming on ...

See the "Folsom Prison Experience," watch "Men on Boats" or "Ripcord" or see new art at Mainframe's First Friday this weekend ...