During the pandemic, Mona Liza Santos got laid off from her job in medical billing and was home full-time with her energetic 5-year-old son, looking for creative ways to pass the time and entertain ...

LANCASTER, N.Y. — The pandemic is forcing everyone to slow down, and as a result, is allowing many to focus on their creative side. A local businessman put pen to paper, and now his children's poem is ...

A new children's book, 'If You’re Lucky Enough to Know a Unicorn,' helps families cope with child loss and grief.

"My hope is that The Bench resonates with every family, no matter the makeup, as much as it does with mine," the Duchess of Sussex said in a statement announcing the book Michelle Tauber is an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

After Kitty O’Meara had lunch on a Friday in mid-March, she sat down and wrote a short prose poem about how staying home during the new coronavirus outbreak could be an opportunity to slow the pace of ...

Artist Loryn Brantz said a lot of the parenting books that she read before having kids didn’t capture what being a parent was going to feel like from an emotional standpoint. “It'll say, ‘You need to ...