Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of children’s horror recommends creepy-crawly ...
The kids who can are speaking up for books and libraries. It is up to us to help them, as well as the ones who can’t. Book bans are antithetical to free speech and free thought. They are ...
The Twelve by Liz Hyder (Pushkin Press) On holiday in Wales, Kit’s younger sister vanishes, along with all trace that she ever existed. Only fellow teenager, local boy Story, remembers her.