For most people, knowledge of what life is like on the job for healthcare workers comes primarily from two limited vantage points: watching television shows and experiencing their own patient care. The same is true for many people who eventually become doctors and nurses, as Grace Faris reminds us in her sensitive, energetic graphic memoir,
while only 12% of children in the United States Attend overnight summer camp programs is still a popular topic among young readers. Whether they attend summer camps or not, kids love to imagine being away from home without their parents and all the obstacles they can face with that newfound freedom. Middle grade books about
This month, a fresh adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Beloved little house on the prairie comes on netflix. The timing of the reboot is auspicious. 2026 saw the peak of the tradewife debate. And if walking through the streets of Brooklyn, a certain prairiecore aesthetic refuses to go quietly. Pioneer nostalgia tends to increase
TeaThe latest novel from Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive, begins with an octogenarian having a heart attack. Former business magnate Wilbur Budd is already feeling a little awkward when he gets a call from his ex-wife Maggie, whom he has not heard from in years. “I wanted to hear your voice,” she
The book collection of the creator of The Snowman and Fungus The Bogeyman has gone on sale at Oxfam’s Hove Bookshop in East Sussex. Online. More than 1,000 books from the collection of beloved British author and cartoonist Raymond Briggs have been donated by his estate following his death in 2022 at the age of
It’s been years since I delved into YA books the new York Times Bestseller list. The last time was in 2023, where I looked at the list’s titles over the 10 years of the list’s existence. But as we enter the middle of 2026 and start talking about the best YA of the year so
Hello my little elder amber! In today’s round-up of recent science fiction and fantasy links, I have an update to share about a tabletop game being created by Adrian Tchaikovsky. children of timea look monsters and diplomacy by Megan Frampton, and the opening of a new sci-fi and horror bookstore in Alexandria, Virginia. My SFF
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If there’s one Black romance author whose name is on many people’s lips these days, it’s Kennedy Ryan. While she has been self-publishing since the mid-2010s, she burst onto the romance scene full-time when she became the first Black author to win a RITA Award by a vote of Romance Writers of America members (in
Children’s Literature Festival criticized after request to remove comments on diversity books
Bath Children’s Literature Festival It is facing criticism after its founder emailed writers asking them to remove social media posts about the festival’s lack of diversity at the 2026 event. The authors said that their comments criticizing the festival for lack of representation under a post on the Instagram page were deleted, with the original