Second-graders are authors and winners of a Scholastic “Kids are Authors” contest for writing and illustrating a book about the lifecycle of butterflies. Thousands of kids around the nation entered ...

Unless you’re Lauren Petruschke. The Lafayette Hill woman is the first to admit she’s no expert when it comes to the delicate winged insects. Has she studied the 28,000-plus species that exist ...

The words and ideas inside a book can last forever in the minds of readers, but the fate of books themselves is much less certain. They might sit on a shelf and collect dust or be packed up into boxes ...

“The Life Cycles of Butterflies” by Judy Burris and Wayne Richards, 2006, Storey Publishing, $16.95, softbound, 151 pages: This book starts out by explaining the complexities of the butterfly’s ...

The Butterfly Club is a very good book. It is about some triplets standing up for each other; there is Maddie who is sporty and likes to play football with her best friend, and there is Phil who is ...

Some children are brought up playing Monopoly and chess. They learn to strategise and monopolise. Others gamble. They play Crown and Anchor, they play dice. They play games of chance and that’s just ...