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 ...

A.A. Milne was inspired to write his Winnie the Pooh books in the 1920s while living ... inspired author A.A. Milne’s fictional Hundred Acre Wood in his beloved Winnie the Pooh series.