Barnyard animals teach a chicken how to read analog clocks in this instructional picture book. After Chicken shows up late to meet with Farmer Ed, a letter arrives from “Brutus the Boxer,” promising ...

I am a slave to my alarm clock. It ticks out the minutes and hours I am allotted for sleep, and then wrests me from dreamland with a jangle whose volume is set high enough to revive the comatose.

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...