The novelist Maggie O’Farrell (“Hamnet”) touches on this painful phase in her third book for children, “The Boy Who Lost His Spark,” a lovely read-aloud for children ages 5-9. Young Jem has had to ...
Alternately lush and inviting, magical and mysterious, dark and forbidding, forests have loomed large in literature, music and art for hundreds of years. Even on paper, they’re an exciting ...