One of the best-loved picture books by the internationally celebrated author and illustrator, Tomi Ungerer, is The Three Robbers. The Robbers, disguised in their capes…
Karen Hesse has just won one of the MacArthur “genius” awards for her books for children and young adults. There is a great deal to…
Rachel Field was 10 years old before she learned to read. Born on September 19, 1894, in New York City, she spent the first 10…
Emily Brontë wrote just one novel in her relatively short life, Wuthering Heights. But what a novel it was, and it’s impassioned, romantic reach has…
It is challenging to put into words exactly what makes reading Farley Mowat such a personal experience. If you read his tales of the far…
Tomorrow is the birthday of one of the most innovative creators of picture books for young people, the Japanese artist, Mitsumasa Anno. Born in 1926,…
Today, Rita Smith is helping us to rediscover Laura E. Richards.
Here’s Kevin Shortsleeve to take us under the sea and up in the air to celebrate the birthday of Jules Verne.
It was James Joyce’s birthday this weekend, and Kevin Shortsleeve has something to say about this famous Irish author and his gift for nonsense.
It seems like we should be throwing some kind of party today, a big party with many jars of honey and Good Things To Eat,…