Elizabeth Lim tops the YA list with a take on ‘Beauty and the Beast’: the New York Times list for the week ended June 7.

Montgomery Whitewater Park invites the community to kick off summer in style with Summer Solstice, a three-day celebration packed with outdoor adventure, live music, and family-friendly fun — ...

Andrew Kahrl discusses his book “The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America,” Noon Wednesday, History Is Lunch, Two Mississippi Museums, 222 North Street, Jackson, ...

An inescapable hurt, teen investigators, and the Tupper family: the New York Times list for the week ended May 31.

By this time, Miller was contemplating writing a kids book about Alaska’s caribou, then-4-year-old Robin’s favorite animal. She met Nancy White Carlstrom, an established children’s author in ...

The Riverbend BrewFest & Country Jamboree event, originally set for May 16, has been postponed until Sept. 12, according to the city of Montgomery. It will be from 6-10 p.m. at Union Station Train ...

The book, like the leopard- and zebra-skin sofas that Brown bought to decorate her New York apartments, was mischievous, erotic, and a little sinister. In 1942, Brown left W. R. Scott to become a ...

When she washes up on an island in Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot, published by Little, Brown in 2016, Roz is on unfamiliar turf.Not designed to live in the wilderness, the robot must learn from ...

In “The Wild Robot,” Lupita Nyong’o voices Roz, an intelligent droid who must navigate the challenging natural world of the future. In addition to three Oscar nods, the movie has earned a ...

Interestingly, Brown has already published two sequels to his original work, with 2018’s The Wild Robot Escapes and 2023’s The Wild Robot Protects, effectively building upon Roz’s storyline.

Sanders dropped back into DreamWorks Animation, where he immediately zeroed in on Peter Brown’s book “The Wild Robot.” He had no idea that the studio had the rights for around four years.