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How the author of ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie’ hopes to help inspire a new generation of authors. Laura Numeroff’s love for books began very early in life.

World Nov 29. How the author of ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie’ hopes to help inspire a new generation of authors. Laura Numeroff’s love for books began very early in life.

NBC 5 gives away hundreds of books to Dallas kids in Reading With You initiative The latest reading festival event let kids read with NBC 5 anchors and reporters, color and design their own bookmarks.

In the 'Storyland' exhibit at Betty Brinn Children's Museum, children walk through life-size pages from stories, interacting ...

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself”: So reads one of the great opening lines in British literature, the ...

PIG (12D: "If You Give a ___ a Pancake") If you Give a PIG a Pancake (1998) is a children's book by Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond.

In “I’ll Tell You When I’m Home,” the Palestinian American writer Hala Alyan draws on her life experiences and her family’s multiple displacements across generations.

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If you find your swing impeded by a fence but you're standing on a cart path, are you allowed to take free relief? Rules Guy has the answer.

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Murders, ghosts and crime, oh my! New thriller books to keep you reading all summer. Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY. Updated June 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM. ... Devastated to give up his music career, ...