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With so few words, most of them kid-friendly, it should be a piece of cake. But it depends on who’s holding the whisk. By Daniel Hahn In “Where the Wild Things Are,” the boy Max finds ...
YOU LOVES EWE! By Cece Bell. Ah, the English language: Learning its quirks is a challenge for little readers and almost-readers, but Bell (“El Deafo”) brings irresistible humor to the task.
A woman was reunited with an old wedding photo of her grandparents getting married in Detroit in 1953. The photo was found ...
Three hundred and seventeen individual picture book titles were banned in the 2021-22 school year, the organization found. These titles are meant for a K-5 audience, demonstrating the impact of ...
Geddy Lee said he recently found a picture that he wanted to include in his 2018 book. The former Rush frontman was forced to publish Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass in 2018 without an ...
So it is that Sendak, considered by many to be the most influential picture book creator of the 20th century, will have another publication in the 21st, five years after his death.
Here are 10 kids' books NPR staff and critics loved this year If you've found yourself reading the same picture book over and over (and over and over) to a small but determined audience we see you ...
About 15 years ago I found this family portrait in a book I brought home from a used bookstore in NYC. I look at it every few years and wish I could find the girls and return it. I love this picture.
An old wedding photo found in a library book inspired a search to find the family. Here's how social media helped reunite the family with the mid-century picture.
“Green Book” is the worst best picture Oscar winner since “Crash,” and I don’t make the comparison lightly. Like that 2005 movie, Peter Farrelly’s interracial buddy dramedy is ...
AL.com received a copy of the book review list for the Madison branch and found that 91% of 233 titles had the words lesbian, gay, transgender, gender identity, or gender non-conforming in the ...