(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 ...

Inspired by events and people from her childhood, Claudia Hull started writing stories after making up campfire tales for her kids. She said her children called them, “stories from your head.” ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. If Henry Winkler is not a morning person, it ...

T.J. Aagesen does not exactly fit the image as the author of a children’s book, especially one about chickens. The 40-year-old Elgin man is big and strong and has a master’s degree in emergency ...

Discover how a mother-son duo turned bedtime stories into a children's book series, now available at Swampscott Public Library and on Amazon.