This season’s children’s titles bring poetry, humor, Jewish wisdom — and even a kitten or two — to the holiday bookshelf.

The nonfiction winner considers Gaza and the West; other winners include Rabih Alameddine, Daniel Nayeri, Patricia Smith ...

A Palestinian student stands at the blackboard on the first day of classes in the West Bank city of Ramallah (Getty Images) The Palestinian Authority is using school textbooks that promote an ...

For aspiring authors, there is little better inspiration than the work of published, and acclaimed, authors. Terry Fallis's 10th novel, The Marionette, released on Oct. 7. The Best Laid Plans won ...

Books written by Perunal Murugan offer a close look at the rural life of South Indians and their everyday experience,the common struggles in vivid and vibrant manner. Some of the top books by Perumal ...

Shannon Gramse’s “Lost Last Poems” is no ordinary poetry book, and there is neither anything “lost” nor “last” about the poems. Instead, the book is based upon a clever and entertaining conceit. In ...

Erika DeSanty didn’t set out to sing — or write a children’s book. The Clarksburg native, a former Drury High School standout athlete and Williams College women’s golf coach, has been busy guiding the ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

Matthew McConaughey has always had a Texas-twang way with words - most famously with his signature "Dazed and Confused" line, "alright, alright, alright." Now the actor has turned his words a poetry ...

A luminous collection of brief free verse poems follows a pale-skinned family of five through their Hanukkah celebration. Two spreads are devoted to each night: digital artwork in rich colors and hand ...