The new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature is a prolific, best-selling author of children’s books who hopes to use his 2-year term to promote the wonders of picture stories.

McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless ...

Social media "lacks the eye contact, the tone of voice, the touch and the meanings that make us human," writes Tim Trenkle.

A fourth swap of hostages for prisoners moved ahead early Saturday as Israel and Hamas uphold agreements in the first stage of the Gaza ceasefire — including the reopening of ...

January saw plenty of big releases, from new Freida McFadden to Rebecca Yarros' romantasy title "Onyx Storm" to "More or Less ...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in February.

School (s-k-oo-l) is overhauling how it teaches young students to read with new back-to-basics lessons on phonetic ...

Twenty-eight local students are preparing to compete in Annual Regional Spelling Bee at SUNY Oneonta Saturday, Feb. 1. The regional bee, which is in its 23rd year, will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday in ...

NEW YORK — Drive times into Manhattan have dropped dramatically since the institution of New York’s congestion tolling program, according to data released Wednesday by the MTA — with the ...

Mark your calendars for World Read Aloud Day and discover the transformative power of storytelling - there’s a reason this ...