Kids love animals—so it makes sense that they love animal books, too, like these nonfiction picture books and middle grade books. These nonfiction book picks for PreK–7 are packed with rich vocabulary ...

For Talking Animals Books owners Katy Lemieux and Valerie Walizadeh, keeping stories alive was the inspiration for both their two-year-old bookstore and a new summer literary crawl. Named after the ...

Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center ...

Dogs do see color. Naked mole rats are oblivious to pain. The first insects couldn’t hear a thing, instead relying on small organs in their joints to sense things moving around them. I spoke with Yong ...

In the early months of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic emptied our streets, forced us into our homes and turned down the volume on our noisy outdoor lives, species that typically existed on the ...

The octopus is still, suspended upside down on the glass wall of her tank, just below water level. Her eyes are shut, her eight arms knotted snug behind her head, her pale-gray body gently pulsing.