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Few gifts are as valuable and last as long as the love of reading. When children and people read and enjoy books, they are opening endless doors for themselves and their future. They are gaining ...

Fewer children in the UK are growing up with a love of books. The aim of the campaign is to meet people where they are and encourage them to read about what they’re already interested in. For parents ...

Banning, and even burning, books that conflict with tightly-held ideology is nothing new. In 1933, student-led book burnings at the University of Berlin spurred a list of government-enforced banned ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

Ask me what I’m reading at any given moment and I’ll probably rattle off at least three titles, not to mention comics and the occasional textbook I may also be chipping away at in the background.

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

As a former English teacher with a background in literacy education, I’ve seen how imperative it is that kids have a solid reading foundation. At the same time, as a mom to three young kids, I feel ...