WELLS, Maine — An instructor asked a group of children at Wells Elementary School this week which animal had been floating in a book they had read together. “The bee!” one of the kids enthusiastically ...

“I love history,” declared David Scheffenacker Jr., telling the story of how, at age 25, he walked into a rare books store in downtown Baltimore. “The minute I walked in, I was hooked,” he said. “All ...

Tales of swashbuckling intrigue by greats like Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling instilled a love of storytelling in generations of young readers, yet somewhere along the way, those kinds of ...