I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

Ten of 17 judges held that a public library’s removal of books from circulation doesn’t implicate its patrons’ “right to receive information.” Judge Duncan hammers the lack of standards ...

Several votes in Congress could have significant impacts on California. The GOP-controlled House voted last week to pass a budget bill, which could remove Medicaid coverage for millions of ...

California is home to the busiest ports in the country - a crucial piece to the exchange of goods with other countries, notably exports and imports between the Golden State and China. But ...

May 21, 2025 • We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.

18 x 12 cm. (7.1 x 4.7 in.) ...

Duncan Fallowell chose New Zealand, ‘so that I need never travel again’. By voyaging as far from his British homeland as possible, he hoped to have in some way ‘cracked the planet’. Sensing perhaps ...