Chicago — The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the ...

Ayer 1485, a Nahuatl-language manuscript, sits in the conservation lab at Newberry Library on the Near North Side on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. [Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/TNS] Eileen T. Meslar ...

A medal-winning author is set to speak at the Capitol this March. According to the Warren County Public Library, Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña is set to speak Monday, March 4. Sessions ...

Erin Entrada Kelly, author of “The First State of Being,” and Rebecca Lee Kunz, illustrator of “Chooch Helped,” are the 2025 recipients of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals, the most ...

Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s ...