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By STEVE PFARRER

Just in time to coincide with Children’s Book Week, a national event established in 1905, the Massachusetts Center for the Book (MCB) has created a children’s literary showcase here in the Valley.The Mass Kids Lit Fest, a new book festival taking...

By AZAI DUGGER and ROBIN GOLDSTEIN

Note from Robin Goldstein: For this column, I asked my 9-year-old nephew and co-author Azai Dugger to choose his favorite restaurants and briefly describe each one — the same task as I undertook for my last Gazette column.With great difficulty and...

By STEVE PFARRER

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has no shortage of material to draw on for exhibits.Aside from highlighting work from traveling exhibits, or showcasing illustrations of specific artists drawn from various sources, the Amherst museum can...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

When Shelly Bathe Lenn traveled to the other side of the country three years ago to visit one of her old friends, she didn’t think it was the start of a journey that would end in her donating one of her kidneys.Lenn, who works in Northampton as a...

By STEVE PFARRER

Five years ago, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, already an acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator, took his career to the next level with “Hey, Kiddo,” a graphic novel/memoir in which he shared poignant and often painful details from his childhood and...

By STEVE PFARRER

In a long career that’s seen him win a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a boatload of praise, Williamsburg writer Tracy Kidder has tackled a number of different subjects: the computer revolution, elementary schools, civil war refugees, the...

By BERA DUNAU

HUNTINGTON — Human beings have many incentives in life that drive them to feats great and small, with food, love, religious faith and patriotism being some of the common ones.This year, Littleville Elementary School students were given the incentive...

By LISA SPEAR

About a half dozen actors, wearing jeans and T-shirts, are hunched over, rearing their heads pretending to be unicorns as they gallop around the room full of spectators — most of them kids — in the Eastworks Building in Easthampton.Pam Victor, who is...