PANAMA CITY — United Through Reading, a military nonprofit organization, aims to keep military children and families reading throughout the year. According to a press release from United Through ...

Studies have found that reading fiction can make people more empathetic, strengthen their social-cognitive abilities and increase psychological richness.Illustration: Carmen Casado/The Guardian Most ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

I’ve always been an avid reader. I even have a B.A. in English, so you’d think reading for pleasure would be a no-brainer.

With competition from televisions, tablets and video games, books are often overlooked by kids — even those who are excellent readers — as a way to entertain themselves. But with a little support, ...

Reading for enjoyment is becoming a lost habit among today’s youth, as more and more students struggle with the foundational skills needed to read effectively. Learning to read is challenging—it ...

Any reader knows the unique delight of settling down with a good book. But over the past two decades, there has been a steady decline in Americans who read for fun, according to a study published ...

The love of reading is one of the greatest gifts an adult can give to a child. Pragmatically, reading proficiently helps with school work. But it also widens children’s horizons. It can help readers ...

Some of my favorite early parenting memories are reading children’s books aloud to my babies. From Sandra Boynton’s whimsical rhyming animal board books to Robert Munsch’s beloved I’ll Love You ...

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 ...