A new generation of readers is missing out on an essential experience: reading aloud with their parents. Here's how parents ...

Reading with young children has lots of benefits. Experts agree it can be key to language, cognitive and emotional development, while also encouraging imagination and creativity. Books can help boost ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. A short, family-friendly bedtime reading routine helped young children grow in cognitive empathy ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

WHO DOESN’T LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT? THAT’S THE NAME OF A LOCAL INITIATIVE GEARED TOWARDS GETTING KIDS EXCITED ABOUT BOOKS. JOINING ME NOW TO EXPLAIN HOW IT ALL WORKS AND HOW TO GET KIDS INVOLVED IS ...

I cover baby and kids gear after a decade of reporting on parenting. Amazon recently released its very first color Kindle designed for young readers: the Kindle Colorsoft Kids. While my older children ...

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 ...

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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 ...