I'd just started reading Adam Rex's latest novel for kids (I finished the prologue and was a page into Chapter 1) when my wife Robyn snagged the book from me. Having watched the videos (here and here) for Chloe and the Lion, she's developed a bit of a crush on ...

I'm not much for paranormal fiction (except, I suppose, zombies). I never read a lot of vampire fiction — be it Anne Rice or Stephenie Meyer — and so I've largely avoided the various books about other things that go bump in the night. But in the past few months ...

As the father of two girls, I particularly want to ensure that my daughters have books that feature great female characters. I'll readily admit that I didn't pay much attention to that when I was a kid — I read voraciously, but I know that many of the characters I ...

I'm sure you've seen the movie. A mouse of a boy runs down an indifferent city street, three larger boys in pursuit. They had recently tossed him into a dumpster because he had no lunch money to give them and after he climbed out covered in garbage, th...