Looking for something wholesome, family-friendly, and completely free to do in Austin this weekend? In a city packed with events, one feel-good celebration stands out: BookSpring Fest, happening ...
For her May 2026 Read With Jenna pick, Jenna Bush Hager picked a thriller that “will keep you reading late into the evening,” she says. “We rarely choose mysteries and thrillers in the book club, ...
An imposter monkey, an underworld princess, art’s female trailblazers, and YA tales of fear, family and friendship Our World: Nigeria by Bunmi Emenanjo and Diana Ejaita, Barefoot Books, £7.99 Part of ...
Spend time with a four-year-old and you will quickly learn that one way to guarantee shrieks of unstoppable laughter is to pretend not to see them sitting on the couch and then sit on top of them.
What’s your favorite genre of books? Nonfiction is my go-to. There’s nothing better than cozying up to a good memoir or a thought-provoking history book. I’m currently listening to an audiobook called ...
What happens when you shrink down a book club to two days and take turns narrating the story? Welcome to Page Break. By Elisabeth Egan Visuals by Yuvraj Khanna I was a nervous wreck on a recent Friday ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — Bunni Pounds, a political fundraiser-turned-activist who lost a 2018 bid for U.S. Congress from Texas, was visiting the Museum of the Bible in Washington when she says God ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn — New international research by the United Way of Australia is highlighting the impact of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. The five-country study is the largest ever done on shared ...
A father reads a bedtime story to his daughter in 1955. Lambert/Getty Images In 2024, 51% of families read aloud to their very young children, while 37% read aloud to their kids between the ages of 6 ...
“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...
1123 TODAY IS WORLD READ ALOUD DAY, A GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF THE POWER OF READING AND STORYTELLING, A MILWAUKEE WOMAN’S PASSION FOR READING ALOUD HAS GONE VIRAL. JOINING ME NOW IS JEANETTE JUSTICE, THE ...
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.