“Let’s figure out what our letter of the day is!” Ms. Rachel, the children’s YouTube star, cooed that sentence in an Instagram video posted this week...
SCATTERGOOD, by H.M. Bouwman Narrated by 13-year-old Peggy Mott, part of a loving, tight-knit farm community, H.M. Bouwman’s new middle grade novel brims from the get-go...
Howard Buten, a college dropout from Detroit, juggled three extraordinary lives. In one, he was a tender, clumsy and wordless red-nosed clown named Buffo. He sold...
Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children’s book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak. The...
As a Dominican American girl growing up in a small, immigrant neighborhood in Newark, Carol Acosta was relentlessly taunted about her weight. Her home life was...
At a time when A.I.-generated anything sends many of us into a panic, this stop-motion tale from Aardman Animations (“Chicken Run,” “Shaun the Sheep Movie”) hits...
