Determination and a little touch of imagination link the stories featured in this month’s round-up. Whether you are a chicken ...

Meet a lonely boy who dreams of having a pet dog, learn life lessons from two girls taking online dares to dangerous extremes ...

Artwork in children’s books brings layers to the story and does the work of capturing the big, small moments in kids’ lives, ...

Twenty years on from its theatrical release, Bullet Boy possesses a contemporary relevance far beyond its tale of Black youths and gun crime, says Dr Clive Nwonka.

Biographer Ron Chernow on how the author of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ made himself one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

His adventure begins when two young boys embark on a journey of discovery to a world ruled by dragons. Shivam Bansal, a Stillwater 11-year-old, has published his first book in what he hopes could be a ...

I remember sitting by the training ground with a book while my boys practiced football, reading Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude, where he writes: "Thanks to play and imagination ...

Eden Ahbez, Nature Boy And that will be the day you’ll realise ... "The darkest hour has only sixty minutes."— Morris Mandel, The Book of Quotations Just like good times, dark times pass ...

In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist ... however — the reason he learned about them as a boy, and one of the reasons millions of people still visit Fatima ...

He has taken up permanent residence in the American imagination, exerting an influence as a public figure that far transcends his status as a mere scribe. Even as a boy growing up in Hannibal ...

Fannie Flagg, the world-renowned writer who used her childhood in Alabama to tell the story of those on the margins in “Fried ...