Teens love an excellent mystery—the fun of fixing a puzzle, the suspense of surprising twists, and the satisfaction of the truth. Whether your youngster is an avid reader or simply…
Introduction Who Was The Author Who Won The Children's Book Award​? Kids' writing has a mystical approach to significantly shaping youthful personalities. These books show examples, flash creative mind, and make…
Animals Playing Instruments Children Books can be introduced to music through animal-themed songs, as parents and music educators are well aware. For children who enjoy music, songs are an excellent…
It’s January 1986. What do you do if you’re a 12-year-old girl who feels invisible and longs to be a space shuttle commander? In Erin Entrada Kelly’s WE DREAM OF…
There are so many upsetting things about the assault Lacy Crawford suffered in 1990, when she was 15 and a junior at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, but one…
White Whale To the Editor: Carl Safina’s essay in the June 14 issue, “Melville’s Warning,” brought back memories of my graduate school class on American authors. I had never read Melville’s masterpiece;…
During a normal week, Jordan Pavlin, the editorial director at Knopf, seldom ate at her desk. Depending on the day, she might be meeting with literary agents over lunch, catching…
“If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it,” wrote Zora Neale Hurston in her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Throughout this country’s…
Jean Raspail, an award-winning author best known for “The Camp of the Saints,” a novel that envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries and that…
Sally Banes, an influential dance historian and critic whose books include the indispensable “Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance,” died on June 14 in Philadelphia. She was 69. Her death, at a…
MADRID — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, whose mystery novel “The Shadow of the Wind” became one of the best-selling Spanish books of all time, died on Friday at his home in…
As a Hebrew school student, Michael Drosnin was asked to write down what he had learned. He responded, “That I don’t have to believe in God or anything in the…
