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This spring's crop of picture books for children focuses on friendship, history and nature. With belly laughs! Go and Get With Rex, by David LaRochelle, illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka. (Candlewick Press, $17.99) A perfect book for kids who know the alphabet but aren't yet strong readers — or for any kid who likes to laugh. The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award-winning Minnesota duo (whew!) of ...

Historians have been kind to Missouri’s Harry Truman. Since his often-controversial White House years, he has risen in rank high in the presidential standings. In “Ascent to Power,” lawyer-and-biographer David L. Roll pops yet another salute to Truman.

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Each month, the community nominates their favorite teachers and educators from the St. Louis region to be the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Teacher of the Month. May’s winner is Sandra Spearman, a first-grade teacher at Dr. Katie Harper-Wright Elementary School in East St. Louis School District 18…

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