For the Michigan-based cartoonist, the story felt like the perfect metaphor for their own experience growing up as a ...

Erin Alladin’s new children’s book, Wait Like a Seed, tells a story about milkweed and the life cycle of monarch butterflies ...

David Sedaris will mark his 17th appearance in the Dallas Museum of Art's program Arts & Letters Live next week. Before that, ...

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Ready to go green? Kids today are more conscientious and interested than ever about topics like recycling, climate change, and protecting the planet. The Earth-friendly books on this list are full of ...

Milo the Little Dino’s Adventures” is a locally written book about a little dinosaur who “encourages kids to find their voice ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

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Reading books may have several health benefits ... temporal cortex was associated with better reading performance in children. Gray matter plays a role in cognitive function.

The most common theme was a zipline and monkey bars and so began a concerted effort drawing ... As the video and pictures show, completion of the £22,000 project has gone down a storm with the kids.

Cornwall's famous monkey sanctuary, visited by so many in Plymouth, has announced it will stay closed to visitors throughout the year due to escalating costs. Wild Futures has been forced to ...

Non-fiction books offer a gateway to understanding the complexities of history, psychology, science, and society. The following ten books provide thought-provoking insights that sharpen critical ...