(RNS) — Since childhood, I’ve been a regular target of ignorance and bigotry. My experience contributed to my becoming a scholar of history and religion, but more than that, it has given me a clearer ...

What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...

Miriam Udel's "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature" shows how stories shaped a Jewish identity ...

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Over the decades that I’ve been a professional writer, dozens of people have told me they want to write a book about their inner and outer lives as cabbies, baristas, pet sitters, pizza deliverers, ...

TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa woman is teaching kids about equality through her new children’s book. Zuri Louis always planned on writing a children’s book eventually. She just wasn’t sure when she would ...

All across the world, when kids crumple up a piece of paper and launch it into a garbage bin, they yell “Kobe!” Or maybe even “Curry!” No matter who they’re obsessed with, readers will have the chance ...

Knoxville provides the perfect scruffy setting for a new children's book by local author Wes Bennett. The idea for the book began with Bennett's daughter Vivi, now 7. Bennett regularly read books to ...