Jerry Lewis' irrepressibly zany persona made him one of the most famous people on Earth. But meeting Lewis, who died Sunday at 91, in person as a working journalist gave me a wildly different ...

Fans of Pinkney’s Caldecott-winning The Lion & the Mouse and his other lively re-tellings may wonder how he will treat this fable, which ends ominously for the grasshopper. They need not worry.