Ben Hatke News Today

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Amid the fun and sun of summer, you kids can also find plenty of adventure and wonder in the pages of these wonderful books.

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

These kid-friendly Halloween events in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia have plenty of fun things to do, including costume contests and pumpkin...

In spooky stories by Ben Hatke, Remy Lai and the team of Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, the secrets of the undead lead perilously close to home.

Some grandparents remember their grandchildren’s early years as a kaleidoscope of blocks, plastic stacking rings, sticky highchair trays. What contributor Margo Bartlett remembers are book characters.

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New fiction, poetry, and nonfiction book titles from small, independent, and university presses received at NewPages.com. Great reading!

Clemyjontri Carousel Temporarily Stalled by Birds — “The Fairfax County Park Authority took its Americans with Disabilities Act-accessible carousel at Clemyjontri Park in McLean out of operation May 5 because the birds had placed nesting material in its main gear.” The carousel is expected to resume operations this weekend after staff removed the material and

REYNARD'S TALE, Ben Hatke's new illustrated prose book, is due out in bookstores from First Second Books next week.