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For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on December 16, 2023.)

Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time. Audra McDonald is starring in a new Broadway revival, and the race-conscious casting gives the production a new frame.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jonathan Lane, of the consortium Revolution 250, about why the Battle of Bunker Hill won't be reenacted at Bunker Hill to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S.

We explore the history of the bells that have become so tied with the Christmas season: jingle bells.

NPR staff recommend four young adult novels: "Heir," "Annie LeBlanc is Not Dead Yet," "The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette For Young Ladies of Mad Science," and "Dragonfruit."

A grieving mother finds purpose in the new novel "No Place to Bury the Dead." NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with author Karina Sainz Borgo about her book.

A TV show heist involving maple syrup, inspired by a real-life caper: NPR's Ellissa Nadworny talks with actor Margo Martindale and series co-creator Ed Herro about "The Sticky."

Michael Kramer and Kate Reading have become popular audiobook narrators, spending 62 hours at the microphone for one recent book.

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with with Jocelyn Chung, who wrote a children's book called When Love Is More Than Words, about all of the unique ways her family members show their love for her.