Once upon a time, you sat and listened to a story. And you still do this. Storytelling has always been a popular and powerful tradition in society—a way to transmit people’s culture, values, beliefs ...

In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts to avoid them.

That’s what children’s book author Tricia Brown did when she wrote the children’s book “The Itchy Little Musk Ox” What would happen, she wondered, if a little musk ox had an itch on his back? An itch ...