“It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time,” grouses Milo, the apathetic schoolboy in Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollboth. Had Milo been blessed with an opportunity to see Heath Corson ...

I stumbled across an extraordinary children's book at our local library (for a town of 600, we somehow manage to have a great library). The book, though published in 1995, is still available new on ...

When the fire department tested applicants for drillmaster positions, it ran into a little math problem — and maybe yet another legal problem. The math trouble led to mistakes in the final scoring of ...

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He gave us “The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs,” “Math Curse” and the “Time Warp Trio” series: No wonder kids and their parents adore Jon Scieszka (rhymes with Fresca). Now there’s “AstroNuts,” about ...