The Bettendorf Public Library will host a Baby Rave New Year’s Eve party Dec. 31, offering glow-themed activities for children ages 0–4.

Marci Pelzer's father Dan left behind a list of 3,599 books he read. The Milwaukee woman is using it to promote reading.

If you're looking for free activities to help kids beat the winter break slump, County Public Library has dozens of events, ...

Reading newspapers daily, learning new words, and discussing current events will now be mandatory in schools, so that ...

After growing up across countries, I knew I wanted my kids to be multilingual — fluent in Dutch, German, and English from ...

Create a game, get people of all ages involved, and make a habit of reading. Here’s what literacy experts say works best.

According to the state of Colorado’s Department of Education, 42 percent of third-graders in our state read proficiently in 2024. The state’s goal is to raise that rate to 60 percent by 2028.

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are ...

This is the Mitchell Public Library’s bilingual story time, recently revived after roughly a year-long hiatus with help from ...

Elaine Reese, in her book How Stories Change Us, writes about myriad benefits of reading books both for children and adults.

The United States is in the grip of a reading recession—nearly half of Americans didn’t read a single book in 2023, and fewer than half read even one, ...