I was on the London tube recently when the women sitting next to me appeared engrossed in a book – I interrupted her and asked what she was reading.

As the snow falls and the holiday season wraps us in its magic, there’s no better time to grab a warm blanket, a steaming cup ...

Thomas’s audio recording of A Child’s Christmas in Wales is perhaps better known than the book version, yet its lines, such as “All the Christmases roll down towards the two-tongued sea ...

Jimmy Byrge wrote "The Evergreen Christmas Tree" for children, but now it's life lessons are extending to people of all ages.

A library in Leeds, England, has set up a Christmas display with an assortment of holiday classics, but the star of the ...

Not all holiday mysteries are Christmas ones—as Tod Goldberg's Eight Very Bad Nights collection demonstrates, Hanukkah mysteries are just as juicy. The book features eleven delightful and ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.

This line-blurring between Christmas and Carnival is a recurring theme in Clegg’s book. She takes us to a time before the Victorians tamed the holiday, when “[t]he chaos, the costumes ...

The picture book, which includes sheet music and lyrics for an exclusive new song, highlights how the Christmas season celebrates families of all kinds. In an email interview with PEOPLE ...

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Time flies. So for the readers on your Christmas list, what better Christmas gift is there than a conservative book — whether new or a classic. With that in mind, here is my list, not ...