I was on the London tube recently when the women sitting next to me appeared engrossed in a book – I interrupted her and asked what she was reading.

As the snow falls and the holiday season wraps us in its magic, there’s no better time to grab a warm blanket, a steaming cup ...

Each of these titles is a perfect companion while the days grow imperceptibly longer.

A library in Leeds, England, has set up a Christmas display with an assortment of holiday classics, but the star of the ...

Jimmy Byrge wrote "The Evergreen Christmas Tree" for children, but now it's life lessons are extending to people of all ages.

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.

you can grab the sequel The Grinch Takes a Vacation, which is a hilarious take on the story about everyone’s favorite Christmas grouch. This award-winning classic book follows young Peter as he ...

This line-blurring between Christmas and Carnival is a recurring theme in Clegg’s book. She takes us to a time before the Victorians tamed the holiday, when “[t]he chaos, the costumes ...

The picture book, which includes sheet music and lyrics for an exclusive new song, highlights how the Christmas season celebrates families of all kinds. In an email interview with PEOPLE ...

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Time flies. So for the readers on your Christmas list, what better Christmas gift is there than a conservative book — whether new or a classic. With that in mind, here is my list, not ...