reading

An overdue library book has been returned almost 37 years late by the original borrower with a funny note inside, giving library staff a dose of confusion and humor all ...

Sparking conversation and deepening relationships are only two of the benefits adults can get from reading out loud ...

An old fashioned, paper paged book—the feel, the smell, the lack of needing to be charged—evokes inspiration and ...

The steady decline in reading proficiency has reached another milestone in Australia.

In our increasingly disposable culture, poetry waves the flag of permanence. It musters memory against the onslaughts of ...

The tradition of book exchanges as Christmas Eve presents began in Iceland, but can be used for inspiration ...

This Christmas, do your child a favor. Buy them a book and help them develop an appreciation for ...

Canadian high school students ranked among the top 10 countries on an international math and reading test despite ...

There's a tried-and-true formula for learning literacy from a young age

Reading aloud to kids has myriad benefits. Many studies have shown, for instance, that kids who are exposed ...

Storytelling is powerful. Its history stretches back to the earliest days of humanity, and it's an art form ...

People pack all sorts of things when they head off on summer vacation. Most of these are standard ...

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a library,” Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges ...

Commentary Here is a bitter irony for you. Just as the world’s greatest literature of all ages became ...

Commentary A story appeared recently in The New Yorker carrying the funereal title “The End of the English ...

According to data from the Illinois State Board of Education, not a single student in 53 schools in ...

Jim Trelease, author of “Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook,” says: “Every time we read to a child, we’re sending ...

I once read a true story of a crew of rescuers searching for a lost hiker. After hours ...

In what might be the most surprising bit of news I’ve read in a while, I learned that ...

In an interview with Winsome Sears, now Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Armstrong Williams asked Sears to name one major problem in ...

READING, Berkshire—A British gang supplied fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to enable drug traffickers, murderers, and other fugitives to ...

Since World War II, pollsters and the American people have categorized generations using slang terms and dates. The ...

I’m a Brussels sprouts before the cheesecake kind of guy, so let’s get the bad news out of ...

Lately, I’ve been reading from M.F.K. Fisher’s "The Art of Eating." I say “from” because this thick volume ...

My mother, Virginia, loved to read, and as the saying goes: like mother, like daughter. When I was ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce signaled the alarm after the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) recently revealed ...

Relax and let your worries be replaced by stunning aerial nature views from some of Thailand's most beautiful ...