From the daily newsletter: a doctor goes to Mars. Plus: investigating celebrity yearbooks; Merve Emre on friendship books; ...

For “Your Island,” “Your Forest” and “Your Farm,” the author and illustrator radically simplified what was on the page.

Every year, thousands of kids and adults learn to fold and fly paper airplanes at both the National Mall building and the ...

Though library Executive Director Tiffany Verzani said the new maker space will not have open hours staffed by library ...

If you read just one book a night, you will have read 365 books in a year. That is 730 books in two years and 1,095 books in three years. If you consider that most children start kindergarten at ...

A mountain of science shows being kinder to yourself boosts happiness and performance. These books teach self-compassion.

An aerospace engineer has invented an appliance that can whip up quiches, pizzas and more in a zero-gravity environment ...

Kindergarten is all about getting kids ready for elementary school. But how do you get your kids ready for kindergarten? These books can help ease first-day-of-school jitters by showing kids the lay ...

Students in one Connecticut town will get a rare chance to hear directly from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space ...

Perfectionism has a dark side, says Ellen Hendriksen, a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Boston University, in her ...

Jazzmyne Townsend, who was honored as the city’s Teacher of The Year in October, has now been named one of four educators to be a finalist for the National Teacher of the Year honor.

SEATTLE — Evening Reads is Northwest authors telling us about their books in their own words. Most folks know this man as the ...