As any parent can attest, February half term can be one of the trickiest to navigate. It feels like the kids have barely been ...

Kindergarten is all about getting kids ready for elementary school. But how do you get your kids ready for kindergarten? These books can help ease first-day-of-school jitters by showing kids the lay ...

Boston’s oldest film festival will run at the Somerville Theatre and other Davis Square venues from Feb. 12-17, with 10 feature-length and seven short sci-fi movie programs, along with panels and ...

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.

Producer Sara Zarreh tells the story of Margery Kempe, believed to be the first woman to write an autobiography in the English language, more than five hundred years ago.

Gina Davis left Spanish Point when she was 14 but the memories of her childhood there never faded. Sometime around 2005, ...

Come to the Reading Ready Open House on Monday, April 30, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. We want every child under kindergarten age to stop by with their parents on Monday evening and get signed up, play ...

The philosophy is hard on parents and children alike.

Hernandez runs a nonprofit called Moving Veterans Forward, which has helped more than 3,400 veterans find a home. Recently, Hernandez received a letter from the low-income housing organization that ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Writer Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum grew up surrounded by words. As children, she and her sister enjoyed falling asleep to their ...

Hum by Helen Phillips, our November/December Book Club pick, is an all-too-possible projection of how tech might make our ...