'You want to give people the ability to do something that brings up how they see themselves,' she said on the 'Behind the Table' podcast Jamie McCarthy/Getty; Getty Stock Images Whoopi Goldberg is ...

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PBS Kids is expanding “Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures,” which debuted in 2023 as a series of shorts, into a full half-hour series set to debut in 2026. A spinoff of “Super Why,” which ran on PBS ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

As “The Summer I Turned Pretty” goes off script from Jenny Han’s trilogy for its final three episodes, the Prime Video YA series took one element from “We’ll Always Have Summer”: Conrad’s letters to ...

Like all great crime writers, Lou Berney knows that a ripping story is only as good as the characters that make it rip. With his new novel “Crooks,” Berney has created a family saga about a small-time ...

For years, politicians and the American public have clamored for more disclosures about the activities and connections of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who surrounded himself with powerful, ...

Myaap ranks the most iconic fairy tale characters in this video. She loves fairies so much that she released a song about them! Ohio sheriff takes defiant stance on immigration, draws spotlight After ...

I agree with Lon S. Jaffe’s letter to the editor (“Voting lines,” Saturday Review-Journal) that condemns gerrymandering — the manipulation of district boundaries to secure partisan advantage. However, ...

In Emily Hunt Kivel’s new novel Dwelling, a mass eviction in New York City throws a young woman’s life into chaos. Suddenly homeless, Evie relocates to Gulluck, Texas, where she moves into a giant ...

Times are tough, even for kids. What they’re receiving for each tooth they’re putting under their pillows has fallen 14% to $5.01 from $5.84 last year, marking one of the most significant ...

Over five decades, he produced some 150 books, many of them illustrated by Janet Ahlberg, including classics like “Each Peach Pear Plum.” By Sam Roberts Allan Ahlberg, an introvert who became a ...