From picture books to graphic novels, fantasy to family fun, these must-read books have the power to hook kids of any gender. Some are cultural touchstones that belong ... (We've included a few rated ...

January 29, 2025 • Oregon launched a program last summer to pay parents who care for their children with severe ... Elementary School in Bend, found out she won a Presidential Award for ...

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children ... “I can’t read. I can’t talk. I don’t care about stories, plots or characters.

Dana Reeve was devoted to caring for her husband, Christopher Reeve, as noted in the new documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.” In her diary, Dana expressed a part of her experience ...

There's more than just Greek and Roman mythology, too. The fantastic (in every sense of the word) books on this list draw from Indian, Norse, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean myths. For more great ...

January saw plenty of big releases, from new Freida McFadden to Rebecca Yarros' romantasy title "Onyx Storm" to "More or Less ...

Instead, the results, from last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, tell a grim tale, especially in reading: The slide in achievement has only continued. The percentage of eighth ...

November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

If it seems to you like tons of books are showing up on store and library ... including a compulsively chatty writing student waiting to find out if she won a big prize, a woman who has become ...

The reading skills of American students are deteriorating further, according to new national test scores that show no improvement in a yearslong slide. The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a ...

America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known ...