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The Denton Redbud Festival, Arbor Day and Earth Day drive the contents of this column. Enjoy a plethora of books about our wonderful Earth.

Eddie Chuculate is a multi-award-winning author. He is a Creek and Cherokee Indian who grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in Minneapolis.  His new book

Julie Buxbaum, Candace Fleming and Jasmine Warga offer kids opportunities to learn while being entertained.

Susan Faust April 7, 2021 The annual Holocaust Remembrance Day takes on added importance this year when Thursday, April 8, is set aside to recall and renounce genocide. Some folks at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol did not get the “Never Again” memo. One guy sported a “Camp Auschwitz” T-shirt inside the building (he was arrested a week later in Virginia), while a woman gave a “Sieg Heil” salute outside. These scenes are shocking. They place anti-Semitism and Arya...

2020 Young Readers Editions Dec 15, 2020 This season, publishers are continuing to bring popular adult fiction and nonfiction books to a younger audience, as a way of expanding their reach. We’ve compiled a list of some noteworthy new and forthcoming adult titles reinterpreted for children of all ages. The Radium Girls: The Scary but True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark by Kate Moore (Sept. 8, Sourcebooks, $10.99; ISBN 978-1-72820-947-0) This adaptation tells...