It's a time for Christmas pageants, singing carols, giving gifts and decorating homes. To further your festive spirit, you ...

Patch has partnered with T-Mobile to share local children's letters to Santa (and other festive musings) this holiday season.

Celebrate Christmas 2024 with kids by exploring simple Santa Claus and Christmas tree drawing ideas, along with fun poems and songs to inspire creativity. Christmas 2024 brings joy and creativity ...

“ Wicked ” is one of several versions of the Wizard of Oz story told from different perspectives — including Dorothy’s in the original “The Wizard of Oz” film and the wizard’s in the film “Oz, the ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

Writer Matt Hoisch, who has spent nearly a year interviewing poets for a project, describes the public good that comes from ...

Things like trauma can affect learning. Some students need a lot of help to succeed. Schools that take on the challenge ...

What, then, can grown-ups glean from all those hours reading aloud? In the holiday spirit and with New Year’s resolutions ...

Sometime in the 1970s, probably at an event in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Audre Lorde read a poem.  I don’t remember ...

If you are an advocate for full-time Daylight Saving Time, in mid-December look into the dark at 6:45 a.m. and think 7:45 a.m ...

The fever dream of falling into a love affair — in the case of Swift’s song, her relationship with the British actor Joe ...

SIMON: Now that poem is a children's book. COOPER ... COOPER: I said in a letter to Carson that there is no story in this poem. We have to put the story in the pictures. So it's up to you ...