It is difficult — possibly impossible — to remember a recent counting book that has clambered up out of the slough of "useful" into the rarefied strata of "stunning" and "memorable." Hats off ...

Beloved Gorilla Still Charms In New Kids' Book There's a new book out by Anthony Brown called Little Beauty — and boy, is it ever that. Actually, given the subject matter, it's a very large beauty!

What started out as a class project became cognitive psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons' path to the 2004 Ig Nobel prize for sheddling light on "things that make you laugh and ...