First 5 Ventura County's Take 5 and Read to Kids early literacy campaign gets guest reader Julie Tumamait-Stenslie in Ojai.

After two decades of vision, persistence, and deep-rooted cultural commitment, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has ...

Publishers are racing to churn out more historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters.

Readers have had a new "Wimpy Kid" book (sometimes two) to look forward to every year since the original published in 2007. Now, in the months leading up to “Partypooper,” the series' 20th ...

One of those tips is reading to your kids. Below, Patterson offers his rationale, and a few book ideas to get you started. Little, Brown and Company Read to your kids. You. Read.

Laura Moulton, founder of Street Books, and Jelani Memory, founder of A Kids Co., will receive special awards that go to organizations with social justice missions. Moulton’s Street Books will ...

When she asked her high school history teacher about the role of the Chumash, he shrugged it off and suggested she check out a book from the library. “I think we all agree this is way better ...

Scholastic, one of the country’s leading children’s book publishers, is asking agents for more World War II fiction, even as the rest of the kids’ fiction market stagnates. At its book fairs ...

And speaking up her books urge everyone to become what she calls a troublemaker or someone who pushes for positive change. She's guiding adults, teens and lately even little kids, her latest ...