This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went ...

Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s ...

With its singsong refrain and sleepy-time theme, memorable characters and colorful illustrations, it’s one of the most ...

Saquon Barkley is unsure himself why exactly over the final 30 yards of a 78-yard scoring burst through the playoff snow in a ...

He’s in Germany looking for clues about the life and death of his great-aunt Lily, something of a palimpsest herself in the fabric of the Holmans’ family life on the other side of the world. She ...

Railway heroes George and Robert Stephenson take centre stage in a gripping new children’s book inspired by the early days of ...

Welcome to the new series from the Jewish Children's Museum in conjunction with COLlive: “History’s Heroes,” where we learn ...

Mary Somerville’s writings, across a range of disciplines – maths, astronomy, botany, geography – became essential reading ...

Between 1957 and his assassination on April 4, 1968, at age 39, Martin Luther King Jr. gave 2,500 speeches, wrote sermons and ...

In the hellhole of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943, one inspirational and selfless young man was determined to create ‘a ...