Reading Solutions

Purposeful Play The national buzz in education now focuses on school before kindergarten. My question is, “Who gets to frame this conversation?” The effect of politics in our schools seems…

This is Hug a Book Week. How are you celebrating? The creative folks at Atheneum Books have created a new holiday to announce the publication of Hug Machine, a whimsical…

Does the language matter? Anyone who reads this column regularly knows that the importance of talking to and sharing books with young children is a recurring theme. Parents who...

What difference does a book make? A lot. Researchers find a strong correlation between a child’s success in school and the number of books available at home. In a study of factors for academic success in forty-two countries, sociologist Mariah Evans...