WASHINGTON — Emery Eversoll and her mother shared a good laugh when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that some autistic children will never write poems.

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Plants, so often the minor characters in stories about charismatic living things, are the stars of this vividly illustrated ...

Why should we read children's nonfiction animal books? Teaching kids about animals is akin to teaching colors and numbers.