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Multicultural Children's Books Day is here for 2018 (1/27/2018), and we were thrilled to review Tessie Tames Her Tongue, by Melissa Martin, Ph.D., with illustrations by Charles Lehman. My 7-year-old...

It sounds like a mystery or something carried on by magic. But, in this case, wizards probably had nothing to do with the disappearance of the First-Edition Harry...

Lauren Willig's The English Wife brings back the Gilded Age. It was a treacherous, opulent world. It immerses readers in an era immortalized by Edith Wharton, Mark Twain,...

"Treasure hunter" likely brings to mind Indiana Jones. His fedora is askew. He narrowly escapes rolling boulders and outsmarts nefarious villains. But hold onto your hats, adventure enthusiasts!...

The Power of Memorization in Fahrenheit 451 In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian masterpiece, Fahrenheit 451, we encounter a world where books are banned, and firefighters burn any they find....

Time travel is nothing really new for modern readers. H.G. Wells' 1895 novel, The Time Machine, is one of the most famous (and recognizable) examples; but there was...

Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale is now very popular. This is mainly due to the Hulu mini-series adaptation. This renewed interest comes amid political and social...

You may have already discovered that stories of "everyman" often become the greatest classics of all time. But, the publishing history of those stories isn't always easy or...

Against a backdrop of the infamous Industrial Revolution, with all its purported social and cultural advancements, the masses of poor and unrepresented factory workers found mostly hard times:...

Santa's Husband, by Daniel Kibblesmith, hasn't even been published yet, but it's already causing a stir. Kibblesmith is a staff writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,...