List of All Articles with Tag 'book'

Reading transports us to worlds we would never see, introduces us to people we would never meet, and instills emotions we might never otherwise feel. It also provides an array of health benefits.

A library in western Washington state recently received a book so long overdue, World War II was happening when it was last checked out.

Maurice Sendak's books were shaped by his own childhood: one marked by the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the concentration camp deaths of most of his extended family, and parents consumed by depression and anger.

Jordan Clarkson and Kyle Kuzma made the cut, but Chandler Parsons did not. Tough.

Every child under the age of five in California is now qualified to receive a free book in the mail every month, thanks to the state's expansion of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

Here, in no particular order, are just a few of history’s most influential tomes—and how they made humanity look at things in a new light.

Do you know which author invented ‘factoid’—or what it really means? But more importantly, can you find it in this word search?

The ban followed a parental complaint that the book has content unsuitable for children.

The best children’s books of all time include works by J.R.R. Tolkien, Maurice Sendak, Louisa May Alcott, and more.

A powerful image of a Jewish prayer book damaged with a bullet hole was released as evidence Wednesday in the death penalty trial of the man accused of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.

Machines called “Readies” were writer Bob Brown’s answer to “talkies” in the 1930s.

The figurative phrase is more than 200 years old, but the obscure etymology of a 'red herring' is a fishy story that is itself a red herring.