A walk around the Iola square can include reading the children’s book “When Spring Comes” by Kevin Henkes beginning Monday, April 29. The story walk includes successive pages from the book that have been enlarged…

An award-winning children’s book author who has written more than 40 books, including one she co-wrote with Dolly Parton, is coming to speak to area students next week. She’ll also offer a meet and greet…

Second and third grade students at Iola Elementary School had the chance to participate in the Caldecott Challenge of reading 20 or more award-winning picture books. Eighty-two students were rewarded with an ice cream party…

The Iola Senior Citizens, Inc. donated $500 to the Iola Elementary School Library.  The funds are being used to purchase this year’s award-winning books: Newberry, Caldecott, Geisel, Pura Belpre, and Coretta Scott King.

Iola High School students are reading again, thanks to a new English Language Arts curriculum. Teachers Laura Schinstock and Catherine Dean gave USD 257 board members an update on the program at Monday’s meeting. The…

(AP) — Early this September, Amazon introduced a new set of rules for publishing AI-generated content on Kindle books. According to the new guidelines, authors publishing artificial intelligence-generated content must now declare themselves. The new…

Madison Karnes, a sophomore at Iola High School, doesn’t like to be forced to read books. “I’m a slow reader, so I like to go at my own pace and absorb the information,” she said.…

TOPEKA — A northeast Kansas school board has taken wide-ranging action against books that mention nudity, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexuality and other topics, a move critics say is meant to target LGBTQ+ books, but…

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong man was sentenced to four months in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books that were deemed to be “seditious publications.” Kurt Leung, a 38-year-old…

“Let Freedom Read” is this year’s theme for Banned Books Week, which takes place Oct. 1-7. Banned Books Week is a time for the Iola Public Library and libraries across the country to champion everyone’s…