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Children’s books are bodies of work that thrive on specificity. With just the right use of humor, wit, and alliteration, authors like Theodor Seuss Geisel, Lewis Carroll, and Margaret Atwood, among ...

When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year, she chose Rita Dove’s “The First Book” to be the entry for January 1. The poem describes what it’s like ...

Since 2021, there have been nearly 23,000 bans on individual books in libraries and. Many of these bans remove Black and ...

“I listened to the audiobook and found it to be utterly delightful. I loved the conversational voice sprinkled with humorous asides, the informative and engaging facts, and most of all this book tells ...

My sister and I fought so bitterly over our copy of “Little Women” that our mother had to buy a second one. Obviously, we didn’t learn much from the story. By Annie Barrows Annie Barrows is the author ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) After years of culture war battles in school and public libraries, the campaign by ...

IN any roundup of children’s books, such as the semiannual reports in this magazine, it is perhaps only fair to explain the ground rules governing the selection. The Christmas-season list which ...