Deirdre Baker News Today

From the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial.

BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont Fire Marshals Office has released the identity of the woman killed in a structure fire late Saturday night on Lexington Avenue in Brattleboro.

$322,000 was given out across 7 prizes, recognizing fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Indigenous culture, fables, books for reluctant readers and heroism in Nazi Europe

Apile of books and a summer’s day can be heaven, a promise of distraction, recreation and food for mind and soul. My summer recommendations for kids and young adults:

At a time when everyone's stuck at home more than ever before, books are a means of much-needed escape—especially for young minds. They can learn how to cast spells and play Quidditch with Harry Potter over a bowl of breakfast cereal.

At a time when everyone's stuck at home more than ever before, books are a means of much-needed escape—especially for young minds. They can learn how to cast spells and play Quidditch with Harry Potter over a bowl of breakfast cereal.

The annual Charlie Slate Memorial event, now feeding upward of 1,000 people, is facing rising costs and a reduced crew of third- and fourth-generation organizers.

Giving a child a book opens the world to them — no wonder they’re so popular as gifts.

Warren Gardener Whippen passed peacefully September 13, 2022, at Cross Keys Village, New Oxford. He was 98.