Longtime educator and author Laura Robb explains how daily practice with poems helped her granddaughter become a better ...

The event, held Thursday at Southern Iowa Fairgrounds, hosted around 300 third-grade students from around Mahaska County, said Jill DeBruin, outreach coordinator for Mahaska County Farm Bureau.

Children’s librarian Samantha Merigold’s sons, “junior bunnies” Clark, 10, and Flynn, 7, shared jokes with the crowd to go accompany a reading of Forbes' poem "Funny Bunny." The event drew ...