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For over seven decades, Walt Disney's production company has been making animated films. We ranked each movie Walt Disney…

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.

“[I]t wasn’t until I cracked open Eleanor Perenyi’s “Green Thoughts,” a tart, smart and beautifully written set of alphabetical essays ... that I realized how much was really going on here, right unde...

In 1982, Don Bluth proved he could go toe-to-toe with Disney and win with his animated masterpiece The Secret of NIMH.

“She planted, as soon as the first strip was ready, runner beans and a row of lettuce. ‘The runner bean,’ said her book, ‘is not over-particular,’ and Caroline gratefully acknowledged the truth of...

“On a fine May afternoon Caroline sat out in her garden admiring the Aesopus tulips.” – Margery Sharp, “Four Gardens,” 1935 Last week I introduced Caroline Chase Smith, the protagonist in Ma...

“The six tulips stood straight as soldiers, proud as dukes, and gay as cockatoos. Their streaked petals, pink and creamy-white, had edges delicately fluted like the lip of a seashell. They were at...

“To love a garden is to be in love with words: With potageries and racemes, corymbs, hispids and corms. To love a garden is to be in love with possibility for it can never, almost b...

Voices of celebrated actors, especially as villains, bring life to under-the-radar Disney cartoons.