My husband loves all the trimmings of Thanksgiving, particularly mashed potatoes. I adore my grandmother’s recipe for Mamie Eisenhower’s Pumpkin Chiffon Pie. But I could skip the traditional meal ...

Daybreak Anchor Tia Johnson will be reading to kids at several Southeast Texas public libraries. On Friday, Nov. 21, she read ...

New federal testing data shows that reading scores of teens in the U.S. are lower than they have been in decades.

For years, scholars have believed they knew the earliest published works of the first American Indian novelist… until now.

Reading. It’s a building block toward learning and understanding. But not enough young people are trying to learn how to read. New federal testing data shows that reading scores of teens in the U.S.

In this week’s poem, Peter Beckford takes us down a well and into an “upside-down” world. I love this poem’s tangible details of leaves, stones, and antlers; its otherworldly sense of shifting ...

The prolonged absence of parents often places grandparents, as the children's primary caregivers, at the center of their ...

Dorchester’s independent bookshop Teasel & Skylark has launched a Children’s Christmas Poetry Competition 2025. The winner’s poem will be read aloud by Anthony Harrison, Dorchester’s town crier ...

Mayor Petra Pemberton has announced the exciting new children’s poetry competition celebrating the theme ‘What Thatcham Means to Me’. The challenge invites young people to share what makes Thatcham ...

On Nov. 6, UMass Downtown hosted four guest speakers — Abigail Chabitnoy, Hannah Brooks-Motl, Joan Tate and Melissa Dickey — ...

In two words, I was a theater kid. I say “was” because I haven’t performed since coming to college. Not necessarily because I grew out of it, but because theater was less of a passion for me and more ...