Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s only fitting that this Sunday is National ...

Finally, there are signs of spring. So we’re beginning this roundup of children’s picture books with two by St. Paulite Sarah Nelson that celebrate parks and frogs. What better topics to remind us of ...

SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died. And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. COOPER: (Reading) ...

When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year, she chose Rita Dove’s “The First Book” to be the entry for January 1. The poem describes what it’s like ...

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