Mom’s Choice Award-winning author Debra Raso O’Connor interlaces the butterfly’s life cycle phases with themes of interpersonal communication, change and self-acceptance in her new picture book ...

Surrounded by shoulder-high butterfly bushes and other plants as monarch butterflies flit in the warm afternoon sun in her Westland backyard, Brenda Dziedzic is succinct about what she does for a ...

It's easy to take the wonders in our own backyard for granted. In this case, the beauty of butterflies inspired Dewees Island resident Judy Drew Fairchild to publish an illustrated guide titled ...

The latest novel by Bernice L. McFadden, 'Praise Song for the Butterflies,” takes place in the fictitious West African country of Ukemby but explores a subject that is unfortunately very real: ritual ...

AFTER SUCH PLEASURES — Dorothy Parker—Viking ($2.25). Dorothy Parker has no compunction about breaking a butterfly upon a wheel. In fact it is the best thing she does, and her exhibitions in this kind ...

This month, Dykman will visit several Colorado Mountain College campuses to discuss her book, the college’s 2025 Common Reader selection and winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award, according ...

Star of the beloved series “Touched by an Angel,” actress Roma Downey is the author of a new book called “Box of Butterflies: Discovering the Unexpected Blessings All Around Us.” She tells Kathie Lee ...

Sally and George Peterson are DIY gardeners who have transformed a rough hillside with a lake view into a tree-laden landscape with organic vegetables and herbs growing in raised planter beds and a ...

The words and ideas inside a book can last forever in the minds of readers, but the fate of books themselves is much less certain. They might sit on a shelf and collect dust or be packed up into boxes ...

In the title essay of “Nature Matrix,” Robert Michael Pyle’s new collection of nonfiction pieces, he stresses that humans dwell within a rich network of connections—a matrix—that includes many other ...

From making soup to creating a butterfly garden, everyone can do something. By Jennifer Krauss 111 TREES: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl Written by Rina Singh. Illustrated by ...