We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year.

Cats are one of my favorite examples of this phenomenon: they’re usually aloof and anxious, yet they can be sweet and warm at ...

As we face a changing past, Jason Berry looks back on years of reporting on clerical abuse, and reflects on the influence of the beloved dead: a jazz-playing Jesuit, and Berry's daughter Ariel, whose ...

Two columnists debate this strange moment. By David Brooks and Thomas L. Friedman Produced by Derek Arthur We’re living in a strange moment. According to the columnist Thomas L. Friedman, it’s a ...

Our writers and contributors have chosen their favourite ever science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games, board games and more to see you through the festive period ...

Pepys himself was remembered, if at all, as a naval administrator who’d had a compulsion for buying up printed paper. The ...

This year’s top titles run the gamut and include an adaption of a Korean folk tale, a highly entertaining question-and-answer ...

J.P. Thomas and Camilo Henao received their cancer diagnoses within months of each other Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Two friends, J.P. Thomas and Camilo Henao, were diagnosed with cancer months ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Then-18-year-old S. E. Hinton set the groundwork for YA fiction when she wrote The Outsiders in high school, with a book that spoke directly to her peers. Ponyboy's journey shows that things can go ...

Did you have a favourite book or author when you were a child? What is it that you remember most from books of your?

Johns Hopkins faculty and staff are a notoriously innovative, curious, and extremely busy cohort. Yet in the midst of an ...