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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...

Can you put a monetary value on the time parents spend playing with their children? Probably, we can all agree that getting a good education is an important precursor to…