The Big Issue28d
Children's laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on how getting kids to read can help fight misinformation
In August, far-right rioters torched a Liverpool library. It was a tragedy, says author Frank Cottrell-Boyce, appointed children’s laureate just a month before the riots began. And it was borne of ...
The New York Times24d
The Singular Tragedy of Anne Frank
Franklin is the author of the forthcoming “The Many Lives of Anne Frank.” “Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. … Families are torn apart; men, women and children are ...
The New York Times28d
Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World
“Anne Frank the Exhibition” recreates the secret ... Yael Malka for The New York Times Supported by By Laurel Graeber The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera ...
BBC28d
Author Cottrell-Boyce holds summit to warn about children's happiness
Best-selling author Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the current children's laureate, is to spearhead a campaign to tackle a "recession in children's happiness" that he believes is caused by a decline in ...
Frank V. Jovenall, South Pymatuning Township, PA
Frank V. Jovenall, 82, of South Pymatuning Township, passed away Tuesday morning, February 4, 2025, in UPMC Horizon Hospital, ...
The Irish Times26d
Poison Pen – Frank McNally on the late-blooming Violet Needham, children’s novelist extraordinaire
Born in 1876, in London, she was 63 by the time the Black Riders was published, whereafter she turned out children’s novels annually. She had spent a long apprenticeship as an oral storyteller ...
Los Angeles Times26d
A new Anne Frank biography takes a generous view of the liberties taken with her legacy
The 2003 movie “Anne B. Real,” based on “The Diary of Anne Frank” but set in East Harlem, is “the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration” in the ...
Liverpool Echo25d
'This is a real worry for our children and we need to fix it'
Frank Cottrell-Boyce has said Liverpool could be a “beacon” in solving a national issue facing children. The renowned children's author, who is originally from Rainhill, is the Waterstones ...
CNN22d
Anne Frank’s hidden home, now in Manhattan for a limited time
Before she died of typhus at 15 inside the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank lived just over two years inside a secret 45-square meter (484-square foot) annex atop an Amsterdam ...