Real life is filled with absurd moments. The adult response is (usually) to battle to make sense of them, to sand down the ...

Natasha Davis has always encouraged her daughters to read. So she was delighted when Nilah, a third grader at King Elementary School, and Miryssa, a fifth grader, came home one day toting bright ...

Readers find a classroom trend of assigning shorter texts “troubling.” Also: Reaction to President Trump’s naming of a ...

Books are an incredible tool to help children gain empathy by reading about other cultures and walking in someone else’s footsteps. There are approximately 23,000 young-adult titles in the collection.

What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...

On Jan. 5, Queens-based children's book Author Crystal Velasquez and Rep. Grace Meng met at the Queens Public Library in ...

Those innocent bedtime stories you lovingly read aloud night after night contained sophisticated adult themes that sailed right over young heads but spoke directly to your parental experiences and ...

Fewer children are reading for fun - but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engaged ...

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 ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

I remember reading Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, to my two oldest kids — maybe they were 5 and 7 at the time. The younger of the two could easily be overwhelmed by empathy, and I ...