We still remember finishing the fourth of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, being shocked by Cedric Diggory’s murder, and realizing with satisfaction that Rowling was taking her phenomenally ...

It is 1876, and in Philadelphia the opening of the Centennial Exposition, already delayed several times, is threatened by the fiendish Doctor Helvitius. This megalomaniac has kidnapped two children in ...

Cat has more than he can handle when Mother Holly leaves him in charge of her cottage, as he causes rainstorms, winds and thunderbolts. "Older readers will enjoy the rhythmical sentences and witty ...

It’s 50 years since Lloyd Alexander published the first book in his amazing Prydain Chronicles series — and to celebrate, the first book is getting an utterly beautiful new cover. We’ve got the ...

Lloyd Alexander, whose books for children set in mythic lands with modern-sounding problems won him top literary prizes, has died. He was 83. Alexander died Thursday at his home in Drexel Hill, Pa., ...