On Wednesday, News 5’s annual “If You Give a Child a Book” campaign, in partnership with the Scripps Howard Fund, worked to ...

Jennifer Wiertel loves to read and her dream of creating a free, large lending and exchange library was made a reality this ...

Why Shared Reading Still Matters Stories have always carried families through quiet evenings. A tale told out loud builds ...

Lucas Maxwell, author and school librarian, and Gráinne O’Brien, author and bookseller, are launching a new podcast, The 10 Minute Book Club, which will review children’s books.

The rules of Oceania in George Orwell’s “1984” were clear: “Not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.” Any book that carried the wrong line “had to ...

From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes ...

Beverly Cleary's fictional third grader with an adopted dog named Ribsy made his debut in 1950. Cleary was praised for ...

“Children’s book illustration is a vital component deserving serious attention in education policies, publishing and creative industry development at state and national levels,” she said.

"We can make space for freedom, joy and grief as we set about a period of rest, reset and reclaiming" writes the author, in ...

It is the hour for despair. The writer sits, crumpled and waiting. The sun sets. He lays his head upon his desk. A plot—he must have a plot. The public, ravenous for story, has no use for his fine ...

BLUEY will make the jump from screen to page with a new graphic novel based on a fan-favorite episode. “Navigate bittersweet ...