Emperor Palpatine, Predator, and Voldemort are of few movie villains who fully embody the spirit of evil on the big screen.

If we’re lucky enough to grow old, we’re destined to confront the difficulties that accompany that process. Thankfully, they ...

Mikey Please has been named overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 for his funny and immersive picture book The Café at the Edge of the Woods (HarperCollins Children’s ...

The film highlights why diverse books matter and how they help shape identity, empathy and a lifelong love of reading. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel file) “Story & Pictures By ...

It was a chance for youngsters in Shropshire and Mid Wales to enjoy books and reading and have ... Today we bring you a giant gallery of pictures, all submitted by schools from across the region.

It was World Book Day yesterday and children and adults ... and Cruella de Ville from 101 Dalmatians. Take a look at the weird and wonderful entries in our picture gallery.

Chris Champagne is a comedian, political satirist, radio show host and author of a new book titled "Secret Louisiana: An Unusual Guide," which he will discuss at 7 p.m. April 1 at the East Bank ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the ...

Advice from an English teacher in Massachusetts for guiding teenagers to think critically but not cynically about the information they consume. By David Nurenberg This collection of interactive ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. World Book Day has come around again, and as ever, we love to see pictures of your children dressed as their favourite characters.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Christine Wenc, author of the new book Funny Because It's True: How the Onion Created Modern News Satire.