Earlier this month, Daniel Gibbs and his 4-year-old son, Benjamin, sat down together to read the book “The Little Red Steamer ...

Just in time for Opening Day, Robert Coover’s prescient 1968 baseball novel is back in print. By Adam Dalva Adam Dalva is the ...

Julia Donaldson delighted visitors at WWT Arundel Wetland Centre with a magical morning of storytelling on Tuesday 24 March, sharing a live reading from her freshly hatched picture book Gozzle, ...

The author was known for Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but its an infamous, bigoted book review that caused ...

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is expanding his newest shared universe with the release of Uri Tupka and the Gods, and we've ...

Author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler kicked off their beloved kids book series in 1999 and now they're back ...

‘As a three-year-old visiting the library with my mum, the first book I fell in love with was Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are,’ he recalls. ‘By eight, I fell in love with fantasy through ...

Tall Stories’ stage adaptation of the classic Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler picture book The Gruffalo is celebrating 25 ...

The list of 75 celebrities was picked by kids in a vote for the world's "most legendary creative mischief makers" and ...

Donaldson, from Steyning in West Sussex, said her new book felt "like a fairy story" as she collaborated with illustrator ...

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Now that blockbuster crime drama Scarpetta is finally streaming with Nicole Kidman in the title role, the original book series' author Patricia Cornwell has confirmed the exact novels it's based on.