The Public Library is holding its annual book sale, offering community members an opportunity to purchase good resource materials that are being retired from the stacks. When resources are discarded, ...

What plays out in Jeff Rasley's newest book, The Day Big Ed came to Parkside School, happens over three weeks before school ...

A sprawling Yiddish-language epic looks back on the lost world of Jewish life in the shtetls of early 20th-century Europe.

Children's author Jean Van Leeuwen, known for a broad oeuvre including her beginning-reader stories following the adventures ...

Another year means another novel for Dr. Nancy McCabe, director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh at ...

That's the novel approach about a half-dozen Des Moines Public Schools are taking to get kids to read — using vending machines to distribute books.

Puffin Non-Fiction ... of middle-grade acquisitions, including a children’s version of art historian Katy Hessel’s The Story of Art without Men, which won the Waterstones Book of Year in ...

It’s April! Along with warmer temperatures and summer growing closer comes Little Apple Pride. This year Pride will take place starting at 11:30 a.m. April 12 in City Park. The public library will be ...

College professors report that over the past decade or two, they’ve seen a dramatic decline in the expansiveness of the ...

The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts and its Young Writers League (YoWL) presented the winners of the 5th Annual ...

The first libraries I ever saw were in the backs of classrooms. One of the most significant memories of my life is when I ...

April is one of my favorite months. As spring really takes hold, the rain begins to taper off, the days get longer, the ...