Why it matters: Early exposure to reading and interactive play helps children develop language, problem-solving, and social skills before they start school. What’s new: Programs like Dolly Parton’s ...

For her May 2026 Read With Jenna pick, Jenna Bush Hager picked a thriller that “will keep you reading late into the evening,” she says. “We rarely choose mysteries and thrillers in the book club, ...

The Barnes and Noble on Financial Center Parkway in west Little Rock will host a book fair to support the Little Rock School District’s Reading in the Rock program. In-person shoppers on Saturday, ...

Doomscrolling getting you down? Tired of distressing headlines? Want to disappear into a different world for a bit? Reading is the cure to many emotional ailments, especially when what you need is a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. When perusing our final list of the 101 best book club picks, my eyes popped. My book club had just read two books ...

Digital books have grown in popularity over the past decade, but more Americans still read books in print than in digital formats. Overall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read all or part of at ...

What happens when you shrink down a book club to two days and take turns narrating the story? Welcome to Page Break. By Elisabeth Egan Visuals by Yuvraj Khanna I was a nervous wreck on a recent Friday ...

As school leaders, we talk often about impact. We analyze data, review initiatives, and reflect on outcomes to determine whether our work is truly making a difference. Those measures are important. At ...

This would be a terrible time for us to abandon books. Every time I read another story about students asking ChatGPT to summarize a novel or high school reading scores hitting a new low or books ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — Bunni Pounds, a political fundraiser-turned-activist who lost a 2018 bid for U.S. Congress from Texas, was visiting the Museum of the Bible in Washington when she says God ...

Book reading in schools has fallen off severely and, in many classrooms, nearly disappeared, but our model legislation, called the BOOKS Act, can ensure that kids start reading full books again, ...

Louise Fitzhugh’s 1964 story about 11-year-old New Yorker Harriet Welsch is the book I read again and again as a young girl. Smart, funny, and fiercely independent, Harriet confidently marched to her ...