Every child knows the feeling of being on the outside. The right story can help them find their way back in.

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

A recent study found less than half of children are read to daily. The consequences are serious for early learners who enter school unprepared.

Perrillo and Newman: The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure.

Doomscrolling. Poor literacy instruction. Overscheduling. These are some of the reasons cited for a generational decline in students reading for fun.

Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing how people engage with books or other kinds of writing.

Cohen: Survey of D.C.-area high schools shows few assign books to incoming 9th graders to read during vacation. That's a lost opportunity.

Reading novels puts students in community with complex ideas they can explore across weeks. Novels are powerful pedagogy because they are hard and time-consuming to teach. A good curriculum rises to t...

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

Results from the Nation’s Report Card offer few positive signs, with reading performance slumping even since the heart of the pandemic.

Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel debate the value of open borders and what we owe migrants.

Submit your proposal for the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention in Denver, November 20-23. Join educators in shaping the future of English language arts through collaboration and innovative teaching practice...

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

In a new novel by Olga Tokarczuk, guests at a mountain retreat face a dark and cryptic threat.

Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on a crisis that never was.

As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.