Meanwhile, an 1865 first issue working copy of the book with minor defects sold for just over $1.5 million in 1998. While owning one of the remaining five 1865 editions could make you an instant ...

Here are eight children’s books that both read-to and reader can enjoy, over and over. Mog’s Bad Thing. ... Her most famous, “The Gruffalo”, turned 25 years old in 2024.

Children's books dating back more than 200 years have gone on display in Leeds. The Story Time exhibition at Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall features tales from the early 1800s, including The Mice ...

Over the years, I reckon I've read at least 500 children's books. Some have lodged themselves more firmly in my memory – probably because I've had to read them over and over again.

This is a story about children’s stories. It is about what stories should include—sugar, spice and all things nice, or frogs, snails and incest?—and how dark their telling should be.