Families with children ventured to the Denham Springs-Walker Branch Library on June 21 for a special evening family storytime. The program, part of the library’s summer reading program, featured ...

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A monthly Storytime at Essex Library includes all the trappings familiar to its pre-school participants — books, puppets, songs, games and a crafts table. But this program, organized by Spanish ...

Summer reading is in full swing at Village Branch Library. Children learned about safety with the ThinkFirst for Kids Safety Program that focused on keeping children safe with the usual summer ...

Mark Ritts, who played Lester the lab rat on the wacky children’s science series “Beakman’s World” and also operated and voiced the puppet co-host Kino on the PBS children’s show “Storytime,” has died ...

The first thing you do is talk to the puppet. Chitchat, jokes, whatever. Then you read a book. Then you schmooze a bit with the kids. Finally, you shout, “Keep a story in your heart!” If you’re anyone ...

Expecting television to help preserve the art of reading is like asking the fox to fortify the defenses of the henhouse. Beware the TV show that claims to promote literacy. With that caveat, I ...