A new generation of readers is missing out on an essential experience: reading aloud with their parents. Here's how parents ...

A charity that wants to boost children's literacy by arranging for adults to listen to pupils read is appealing for more volunteers. The national charity, Schoolreaders, matches volunteers to local ...

Getting children reading in schools is helping them become "more confident, more imaginative and more creative", a charity has said. Read With Me currently works in 110 out of the 244 primary schools ...

A 2024 American Library Association report noted kids spend just 6 minutes daily reading for pleasure. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Daily adult-child reading ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

JOHNS ISLAND — Emmylou Hayes, 4, got a gift for showing up for her well-child appointment at Angel Oak Pediatrics. The prize? A book titled, “Eggs and Legs: Counting by Twos.” Naturally her ...

Those innocent bedtime stories you lovingly read aloud night after night contained sophisticated adult themes that sailed right over young heads but spoke directly to your parental experiences and ...

In case parents needed another reason to police their children's screen time, new research shows that social media use is hurting preteens' memory and reading skills. The new study, published Monday ...