When market research firm Circana issued a report on the slump in the middle grade market in July, it was not so much a surprise as a continuation of disheartening news for the category, whose sales ...

It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...

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On a daily basis, my phone greets me at some point of the day with a notification for some type of visual gallery from my Google Photos account. With my kids now in the teen and pre-teen phases of ...

A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the ...

(LEX 18) — Reading may be fundamental, but a growing number of Gen Z parents say it's just not fun. That's according to new research showing reading to kids is at an all-time low. Jonathan Hall with ...

College of Education and Human Development experts share literacy activities and guidance for caregivers while school’s out for the summer As summer comes to an end, some parents and caregivers may ...

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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 ...

Undercover "reading scouts" will be on the lookout for kids reading books, who may receive a surprise reward. Read more ...

We are investigating the waning skills and diminishing interest in reading among youth, and one sure contributor is the devaluing of reading in American culture. As our society loses interest in ...