The project began as a lark, an author’s hasty effort to write a children’s book manuscript for his artist friend to illustrate. Yet the resulting picture book, “The Story of Ferdinand,” became an ...

Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood's crassness kills the charm. Happily, that ...

Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood’s crassness kills the charm. Happily, that is ...

This holiday season, there’s all manner of conflict at your local movie theater: Jedi battling in the stars, Winston Churchill warring in Europe and Olympic athletes dueling on ice. And then there’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three and one-half stars. Rated PG. 106 minutes. Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires ...

This holiday season, there's all manner of conflict at your local movie theater - Jedis battling in the stars, Winston Churchill warring in Europe and Olympic athletes dueling on ice. And then there's ...

Munro Leaf's beloved children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” was published in 1936, but the simple, pacifist story about a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight has resonated across ...

This holiday season, there’s all manner of conflict at your local movie theater — Jedis battling in the stars, Winston Churchill warring in Europe and Olympic athletes dueling on ice. And then there’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three and one-half stars. Rated PG. 106 minutes. Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires ...