Travis Jonker is a children’s book author and illustrator, and the librarian at Dorr Elementary School in Dorr, Mich.

Anna Kendrick is more surprised than anyone that the song she used for her audition for Pitch Perfect became a top 10 hit.

From the cobblestone streets of Europe to the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, Emily Koczela has found home everywhere she goes. She has prayed with strangers whose language she cannot understand. She has ...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Benfica has suspended five fans for racist behavior during the Champions League match against Real Madrid, when its player Gianluca Prestianni was accused of racially insulting ...

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The search for Australia’s best children’s picture book is on! Vote now and every day until 5 February for your favourite from 50 of the best, as chosen by Guardian readers. The deputy culture editor, ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Fourteen-year-old Ariana Velasquez had been held at the ...

The owners have put a 67-year-old nudist colony on the market, hoping a new steward can help it shed its troubled past.

Lillian Hellman’s landmark 1934 play “The Children’s Hour” has twice been adapted for the big screen, both times by director William Wyler, and neither film really did right by it. The Hays Code could ...

A twin mattress is often a child’s first introduction to a “big kid” bed—and the one they might sleep on until they reach their teenage years and beyond. To select the best twin mattresses for kids, I ...

Episode 5 of 'Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette' includes a major — and perhaps familiar — fight between the leads ...

Florida man jumps into canal to save mother and 3 children, reunites with family one week later ...