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Holiday House Issues Mordicai Gersteins Collaborative Finale By Sally Lodge | Jan 21, 2021 A moose, a goose, and a mouse ride a loose caboose to find the perfect house in Moose, Goose, and Mouse, a picture book written by the late Mordicai Gerstein and illustrated by Gerstein and Jeff Mack. Released this month by Holiday House, the book has a bittersweet back story involving the collaborators’ chance meeting, a fast friendship between two kindred spirits, an unexpected...

Jane Addams Childrens Book Awards Announced By Cady Zeng | Jan 21, 2021 The Jane Addams Peace Association has announced the recipients of the 2021 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards. The winner in the Books for Younger Children category is We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, illus. by Michaela Goade (Roaring Brook). The winner in the Books for Older Children category is A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick). Additionally, two Honor Books we...

It's time for Bookworms.

Bookshop Ho’s moving story uses less than 200 words—including part of the USPS motto, “neither snow,/ nor rain,/ nor heat,/ nor gloom of night”—to trace a package’s journey across the United States. But the pictures depict far more than its trip: a parent and child’s drive across the variable U.S. landscape, a long-distance relationship, and budding new friendships. Opening with a tan-skinned child in New York City carefully packing a box and taking it t...

Tweet Share Some 3,400 Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1948, but it took 100 years for Major League Baseball to recognize them as major-league-caliber players and to enter their achievements in the historical record. Author Andrea Williams loves the sport, but early on, she found herself even more curious about the business that makes it work. Her curiosity led her to discover a little-known Black American woman named Effa Manley, the co-owner and busines...

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By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer Prospect Land Trust President Bill Rinckel, left, talks with Prospect Land Trust member Suzanne Porter on Dec. 23 at the end of the new 3.4-mile extension of the blue-blazed Quinnipiac Trail at Kathan Woods Nature Preserve in Prospect. –ANDREAS YILMA PROSPECT — Hikers can now make their way from Kathan Woods Nature Preserve in town all the way down to West Rock Ridge State Park in New Haven along the same trail. Officials from the Prospect Land Trust and Conne...

Participants, photographed through night-vision goggles, make their way to patrol bases in February during a military simulation event in Clovis, California. A writer faults the Pennsylvania Game Commission for approving the use of night vision technology for the hunting of furbearing animals. NEW YORK TIMES FILE

Northern Light Espresso Bar owner Jennifer Saunders thanks Lackawanna County Director of Planning and Economic Development Brenda Sacco, left, and county Community Development Manager Peggy Piccotti after receiving a check Wednesday. The county recently awarded grants to 100 restaurants, bars and other eligible businesses.

Dealing with postholes — the consequence of leaving your snowshoes at home (Photo provided) With the amount of time I spend in the woods, I get to see a lot of preventable errors and mistakes wrought of inexperience or oversight. Because so much more goes into planning and preparation during the colder months of the year, those mistakes can be much more consequential. It’s not only that there is more to forget about as you get ready — it’s that the environment is also that much less ...