It probably won’t come as news to you that reading to children carries with it a lot of benefits, such as promoting language comprehension and literacy. According to 2016 statistics from Scholastic, ...

Educators are often asked “how do you know that your teaching is working?” One of my favorite stories involves a teacher who heard a little scratch on the door of her classroom and went and opened the ...

We read books for all kinds of reasons: to learn something new, to get inspired, to pass the time, to soothe our worries, to scare the heck out of ourselves for fun, to ponder mysteries that can be ...

Re “Our Bookshelves, Ourselves,” by Margaret Renkl (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 29): On Oct. 6 last year, my three children and I lost our home and our dog, Lulu, in a fire. Of all the objects that were ...

The Nassau County Chapter of Jack and Jill of America held its inaugural Black History Month Authors’ Symposium Saturday afternoon, connecting young readers with authors and their stories. The ...

What kind of society favors guns and bans books? President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.” Think about it. Who are we? Janet ...

Evanston Public Library volunteer Mary Jo Deysach (Weinberg ’68) is a volunteer veteran. From writing for nonprofit organizations to providing companionship to hospice patients, Deysach has ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) – A conservative group from Williamson County is hosting an event Saturday at the Round Rock Public Library sponsored by Brave Books, a traditional and Christian values ...

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Claudia Johnson is a nationally recognized advocate for free speech, author of Stifled Laughter: One Woman’s Story About Fighting Censorship—nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1994—and winner of the ...