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WELLS, Maine — An instructor asked a group of children at Wells Elementary School this week which animal had been floating in a book they had read together. “The bee!” one of the kids enthusiastically ...

Tales of swashbuckling intrigue by greats like Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling instilled a love of storytelling in generations of young readers, yet somewhere along the way, those kinds of ...

WASHINGTON — How did Kevin Costner's latest adventure begin? With quite a bad first impression eight years ago. The man who dances with wolves, plays on the field of dreams and fights with the ...

GREAT ADVENTURES AND EXPLORATIONS (788 pp.)—edited by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, maps designed by Richard Edes Harrison—Dial ($5). Fireside globe-trotters are likely to find boundless pleasure in this ...