Reading is an important part of growing up and it can be a good hobby as people get older. A new survey looked at reading habits of kids and adults. It found 89% said they read books during childhood, ...

Developing a passion for reading is critical for a child’s academic success. Decades of research have confirmed a correlation between childhood poverty, limited access to books, lower reading ...

I greatly appreciated Thomas H. Benton’s “Reference Works and Academic Celebrity” (Careers, December 9). As one who has worked as a reference editor for the past 15 years, most recently as editor in ...

SANTA CRUZ — For many generations, the experience of children having their parents sit at their bedside and read to them is a shared memory. Before they could read the books themselves, kids were ...

It probably won’t come as news to you that reading to children carries with it a lot of benefits, such as promoting language comprehension and literacy. According to 2016 statistics from Scholastic, ...

SCRANTON – Kids and adults formed a circle inside the Lackawanna County Children’s Library on Sunday afternoon as author and illustrator Lindsay Barrett George led them through an interactive ...

Evanston Public Library volunteer Mary Jo Deysach (Weinberg ’68) is a volunteer veteran. From writing for nonprofit organizations to providing companionship to hospice patients, Deysach has ...

Educators are often asked “how do you know that your teaching is working?” One of my favorite stories involves a teacher who heard a little scratch on the door of her classroom and went and opened the ...

Comic books played an important part in keeping up the morale during World War II. Historian James Kimble will talk about the role of the literature in a talk, “Comic Books, Superheroes & WWII,” at ...

THE MIND AS NATURE (60 pp.)—Loren Eiseley—Harper & Row ($2.75). “There is a legend circulating about a late distinguished scientist who, in his declining years, persisted in wearing enormous padded ...

It probably won’t come as news to you that reading to children carries with it a lot of benefits, such as promoting language comprehension and literacy. According to 2016 statistics from Scholastic, ...