The holiday season is here. Why not give a book to the child in your life? MPR News host Angela Davis talks with a bookseller and a children’s librarian about the best children’s books of 2023 and titles to give as gifts over the holidays.
When the University of Minnesota Duluth stopped running the regional book awards, a nonprofit group picked up the torch. This year's winners, representing books published over the past two years, were scheduled to be announced on Tuesday.
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Twenty years ago, I picked up a blank book and began tracking seasonal events in our neighborhood. I ve never stopped.
In late winter, I document the first time a sunrise is accompanied by cardinal song and the first afternoon punctuated by a steady drip of meltwater. I await the green haze of new leaves across the landscape in spring, and the flicker of bats feeding on insects at dusk. Summer brings fledgling birds begging at the feeder and muskrats zigzagging through the wetland. Before I know it, the yard is buried in dry leaves. Ice has spread across the lake, and owls are hooting their mating duets from leaf-bare branches.