Kids are curious and like learning about strange things. For example, did you know that tarantulas will fling some of their barbed hairs off their back at a potential predator? Or that some germs are ...

Where is the line drawn between fact and fiction? The Lifespan of a Fact, a play opening at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City on April 18, asks — and debates — that very question. Based on a book of the ...

Kids love animals—so it makes sense that they love animal books, too, like these nonfiction picture books and middle grade books. These nonfiction book picks for PreK–7 are packed with rich vocabulary ...

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Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn't is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...

A carefully chosen stack of non-fiction that moves through survival, love, nature, trauma, ambition, and renewal. From ...

One in four books sold in France is a graphic novel. Increasingly, those include nonfiction works by journalists and historians. By Julia Webster Ayuso Reporting from Paris Soon after the journalist ...

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