Some children’s book authors are lucky enough to have just one hit literary series. Author Dav Pilkey, though, has managed to ...

Author Dav Pilkey is most well known for the endlessly popular illustrated children’s book series Captain Underpants and its ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. By A.O ...

The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...

Ricky’ came from seeing a lot of family members go through the criminal justice system and how they struggled to improve and find work, and some resorted to their old ways,” Frett says ...

Learn more. Midcoast author Peter Brown says he was thrilled to hear that the film “The Wild Robot,” inspired by his book, got three Oscar nominations Thursday. But he wasn’t surprised.

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Hollywood is lucky that Ricky Gervais isn’t hosting the 2025 Golden Globes. The 63-year-old comedian hosted the award ceremony five times before, but this year Nikki Glaser is emceeing Sunday ...

Ricky Gervais has shared his sadness after the death of his After Life co-star, Anti, who portrayed Brandy the Dog in the popular Netflix show. Anti, known as Vislor Antilly, was a German shepherd ...