Psychology and neuroscience provide intriguing answers.

When a child shares a book with a parent or carer, this encourages joint attention, helping adults to connect with their ...

Many of us have experienced the loss of a pet. It’s a feeling that words can hardly capture—horrendous, often surprisingly so ...

The 74 reports a decline in parents reading to children, linked to past negative experiences and digital distractions, ...

The Barry-Lawrence Regional Library District is encouraging parents to read 1,000 books to their children before kindergarten ...

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

Picture book author Mac Barnett has been named the Library of Congress' new ambassador for young people's literature. He discusses what the role means when engaging kids in reading can be a struggle.

Our Kids Read has donated over 50,000 books to elementary school students and raised $250,000 to fund literacy initiatives nationwide. Jahmal Lake is the founder of the Black-led nonprofit Our Kids ...

The annual African American Children’s Book Fair (AACBF) returned to Philadelphia for the its 33rd year. The book fair is one of the oldest and largest book fairs for African American children in the ...

The viral literary advocate, known online as 'Mychal the Librarian,' will release the picture book ‘I’m So Happy You’re Here’ ...