“In which book did a character stare at a frog?” “Beep!” “Jackaby, by William Ritter!” After preparing for weeks, the Pelham Bookworms’ hard work was going to be tested. On Saturday, October 21st, all seven members marched into Hendrick Hudson...
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For the last four years, there’s been a competition each fall in Westchester that has nothing to do with cleats, balls or helmets. It’s the annual Battle of the Books (BOB), in which 18 teams from libraries in the Westchester Library System...
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Do you know how many walking sticks were in King Tut’s tomb? Or what Marie Antoinette’s last words were? The answers are deep within the pages of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg—and they were just two of...
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