Year after year, millions of children fall behind in reading, and the consequences are profound: reduced lifetime earnings, ...

It’s common sense that kids who get read to a lot tend to have better verbal skills. But why do some kids get more bedtime stories than others? Is it just luck—having parents who love books?

P. Robertson, Abbeville Kids, 28 pages Read aloud: age 6 and older. Read yourself: age 7 – 8 and older. In August of 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his crew sailed their ship, Endurance ...

Most of us have wanted, at some point, to feel like a kid again. But in this story, he was just trying to buy some books for his young cousin, when he got told kid’s books were… just for kids. Let’s ...