All Penny French Garrett wanted to do was sleep.

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Woman battles rare cancer

Lots of sweaty 8- and 9-year-old girls still go for stories about fairies and princesses after the soccer game. Two Newbery Gold Medalists have turned their attention to such multifaceted and independent readers

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Roundup of children's books

Playing Mozart is a tricky thing for a modern symphony orchestra, which is designed for other music entirely. So a Mozart performance as splendid as Wednesday's by the San Francisco Symphony under guest conductor Jeffrey Kahane is a rare treat. And two on a...

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Music review: San Francisco Symphony's Mozart

The Private Collections spring art tour offers a rare glimpse into the homes of some of San Francisco's most notable art collectors. Among the 10 participating in this year's event - which takes place Thursday night - are Sabrina Buell, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy and...

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Private Collections: A spring art tour

No longer outsiders In the late 1940s, Jean Dubuffet began collecting art created by people in European insane asylums. He called the work art brut ("raw art" or "rough art") and described it as art "created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative...

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'Rare and Unreleased' at NIAD Gallery

With Opening Day coming up, this is the perfect time to share some baseball history with kids. It's hard to find a more inspiring story than that of heavy hitter Hank Aaron, in Henry Aaron's Dream, by Matt Tavares (Candlewick; 40 pages; $16.99; ages 9-12)....

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Roundup of children's books: Baseball, history (San Francisco Chronicle)

Lifelong Hope Valley resident Joseph Soares has always been interested in local history, and it was his passion for collecting historic photographs that led him to pen books on the area's history.

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Hope Valley author races to keep up with local history (The Westerly Sun)

There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14 issue of the New York Review of Books, the scholar and political essayist Tony Judt announced that he was dying.

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There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14... (San Francisco Chronicle)

Unless you have been in a hole or an incredibly deep pocket, you have heard about the money problems with LSU.

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Buy books, help the library (Tiger Weekly)

A gardener's library should be enriched with practical and inspiring volumes as well as those that are just plain fun.

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6 new books for gardeners (San Francisco Chronicle)