Introduce your children to the wonder of the spring season with good spring read alouds. These favorite children’s picture books about spring give young kids important life skills and knowledge. After ...

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

Anxiety, making new friends, learning to share: These 12 titles will prepare young readers for whatever their first day of school may have in store. By Travis Jonker Travis Jonker is a children’s book ...

A new British survey from data company Nielsen and publisher HarperCollins found that the number of parents reading aloud to their preschool-age kids declined to just 41 percent, from 64 percent in ...

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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.