An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in ...

As you might imagine, many of those titles are new books published on Cincinnati history. I love the way this city embraces its history, which seems to be an inexhaustible source of interesting ...

Headteacher Patricia Chapman said: “The pupils dressed up as significant individuals from history. "They revisited all their previously taught learning in their history topics and had to ...

HOLOCAUST HISTORY IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY ON THE SHELVES OF THE BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LIE THOUSANDS OF BOOKS THAT ARE WITNESSES TO HISTORY. THE BOOKS, IN SOME WAYS, ARE REALLY. IT FEELS TO ME ...

And rest assured, they're nothing like your GCSE history course. Go as a River is incredibly moving and will have tearing you up as you absorb the whole book in one go. It's the story of Victoria ...

The deaths of Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Natasha Richardson were some of the most shocking deaths by brain injury in history, but this new book by brain surgeon Theodore H. Schwartz delves into ...

DON GYPSY—Walter Starkie—Button ($3-50). If you are fat and fortyish, but a fiddler you might possibly be able to spend your vacations the way Professor Starkie does. But unless you were also ...

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