A forgotten Victorian children’s book helped me grieve my father

The stories in Mrs Leicester’s School, written by a woman who killed her own mother, were suffused with grief, and finally triggered mine as I was teaching a class of students ...

Behind the Curtain: Rochester native Jonathan Graziano turns senior pug’s second chance into children’s book

Rochester native and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Graziano is beginning a new chapter with the senior ...
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Investigators: Mother ‘likely’ died before children in family murder-suicide

All eight family members who died in a murder-suicide near Grand Haven died of gunshot wounds to the head and the mother was ...

He co-founded an addiction treatment center; she’s a CT children’s author. They’re charged in a fatal overdose

The co-founder at an addiction treatment company in Connecticut and his wife, a children’s book author, each face charges in connection with the death of a man who authorities say overdosed at their ...

Michigan mom wrote book dedicated to her six children before family’s deaths

Krystal Kramer, illustrator for “The Magical Mantra,” wrote that working with Amanda “Mandy” Karolkiewicz on the book meant sharing conversations “about life,” about their families and children and ...
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Grand Haven mom authored book dedicated to her six children before family's deaths

A few years before she and her six children were tragically killed inside their Grand Haven-area home, Amanda Karolkiewicz ...

Dead firefighter's sons launch book to help children cope with bereavement

Barry Martin died four days after being seriously injured while fighting a fire in Jenners Department store in Edinburgh in ...

42 Years Ago: Children’s Movie Death Traumatizes an Entire Generation

WWE Unreal Season 3 Hits Netflix With John Cena’s Farewell Tour Dustin and girlfriend Suzie breaking into The NeverEnding ...

Reading a 3,000-Year-Old Poem to a 3-Year-Old Boy

It’s a gruesome scene, one of many in this confusing, archaic poem composed some 3,000 years ago. One night this winter, ...
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Mom Goes Viral After Capturing Her Daughter’s Emotional Reaction to a Suspenseful Storyline in a Children’s Book (Exclusive)

“She was relieved to see a happy ending!” mom Chelsea Archer tells PEOPLE Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in ...
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Children’s books about Black people’s everyday, joyful lives are sometimes banned – but they help all kids explore what it means to be human

Since 2021, there have been nearly 23,000 bans on individual books in libraries and public schools. Many of these bans remove Black and LGBTQIA+ literature from bookshelves. Approximately 44% of the ...