Filling an Easter basket for elementary-aged kids just got easier. These 12 gift ideas for ages 5-10 cover fan favorites, screen-free activities, premium candy, and books kids actually want to read.

A Bury mum has organised a free book hunt across four parks this Easter holiday to encourage young children to engage with books and read more.

A Bury mum has organised a free book hunt across four parks this Easter holiday to encourage young children to engage with ...

Young adult fiction is filling a long-ignored reading gap for teenagers navigating identity, relationships and growing up.

Andrew Tate does not read books. In a clip that resurfaced recently, the polarizing influencer explained why. Books, he argued, are too slow. His brain is “far too advanced” to enjoy such a ...

Readers respond to Charlotte Higgins’s article on the National Year of Reading Charlotte Higgins makes a powerful point (The National Year of Reading celebrates the ‘joy’ of books. But let’s not ...

Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into mere ‘reading for pleasure’? It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...