Bruce Handy’s forthcoming picture book engages in the sort of extravagant speculation that children love. If you could have any ... “I don’t want you to suffer, my son,” says his father, foreshadowing ...

Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement. By Salamishah Tillet The children ... the National Book Award-winning marine ...

In its topic and in the heft of its heroine, “Doris” brings to mind Roger Duvoisin’s 1961 picture book ... children, and when ...

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I adore my first daughter's name, Flora. I had a name picked out for my second daughter since before she was conceived, Hazel. “Long story short, when she was born, I let myself get talked out ...

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In its topic and in the heft of its heroine, “Doris” brings to mind Roger Duvoisin’s 1961 picture book “Veronica,” about a hippo who, unlike Doris, yearns for nothing so much as to be ...