Berkshire Theatre Group will present a spring benefit at The Colonial Theatre honoring Mary Pope Osborne and Will Osborne, ...

If the Brothers Grimm or Lewis Carroll had an ideal reader in mind for their bleak, strange books, it must have been a young Andy Griffiths. Raised in a house of literature, with a sense of the ...

The 41-year-old will read Stop! That’s Not My Story!, which offers a new twist on traditional fairy tales and is written by Smriti Halls and illustrated by Erika Meza. Foy said: “I think it is really ...

Adapting Enid Blyton’s classic children’s fantasy was never going to be straightforward; while her series of four books set in the Enchanted Forest (published between 1939 and 1951) still delights, ...

A Tennessee librarian is facing discipline after refusing to move more than 100 books from juvenile shelves in a Rutherford County library, saying the board did not following proper removal procedures ...

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Even in her own time, Enid Blyton was not the coolest or most respected children’s author, but her Magic Faraway Tree books tap into childish fancies like almost nothing else. The problem is that ...

Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, said her latest book was inspired by a traditional Scottish tale Acclaimed author Julia Donaldson said she had done "a lot of research about birds" ahead of ...

Acclaimed author Julia Donaldson said she had done "a lot of research about birds" ahead of her latest book. Donaldson, from Steyning in West Sussex, said her new book felt "like a fairy story" as she ...

A vivid celebration of the artist covers her childhood and breakthrough in New York – while sidelining ‘that other business’ John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as “the world’s most famous unknown ...

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is developing The Witches Of Cambridge, a drama series based on the upcoming novel by Practical Magic author Alice Hoffman. The adaptation will be produced by Noah Hawley’s 26 Keys.

1123 TODAY IS WORLD READ ALOUD DAY, A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF THE POWER OF READING AND STORYTELLING, A MILWAUKEE WOMAN’S PASSION FOR READING ALOUD HAS GONE VIRAL. JOINING ME NOW IS JEANETTE JUSTICE, THE ...