The very act of reading independently should be pleasurable. Forcing a child to stumble through works that are too difficult ...

Books can hold decades of earned knowledge in the span of a few hundred pages. When it comes to understanding finances, fewer decisions are easier, cheaper or more impactful than the move to educate ...

Remember the Book It! program that kept many of us interested in reading through our formative years? It is still alive and well, turning 40 this year, and has spun off into supporting a National ...

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

It’s Children’s Book week and the beginning of National American Indian Heritage Month, a good time to explore some newly ...

The report found that, when children engage in reading for pleasure (creating time and space to read at home or in school), children feel happy and relaxed, learn new things, learn about other ...

Her debut novel, "Firekeeper's Daughter," introduces readers to her powerful storytelling. Read along to find a fresh ...

An easy way you can begin to develop a child’s innate choosing strategies is by introducing them to series, or even authors ...

There, I said it. And while most bibliophiles would be happy to unwrap a stack of reads on their TBR list, picking out the right books for an avid reader is risky business. So, here's a novel idea ...

Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic ...

And at the time, my mom was still living and she was a big reader, so I showed her the book and I just said, "Take a look at this and look at the bookstores and pick one or two out and we'll just ...