The nonprofit was founded in 2004 to improve the lives of underprivileged children from Spanish-speaking families in the ...

Thibodaux is hosting its third-annual Look Who’s Reading Book Festival this weekend. The free event aims to promote literacy among youth in the Bayou Region. Attendees will receive free food, school ...

What’s Going On is a listing of activities taking place throughout the Downriver community. To submit an event, send an email to downriverlife@thenewsherald.com. List the time, date, location, cost ...

Discover the Greek mythology books every reader should know, from Homer's timeless epics to bestselling novels inspired by ...

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Rithisha Pasunoori's huge appetite for service led her to collect more than 5,000 books for Detroit kids, and she still wants to do more.

Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under ...

As the summer reading season begins in earnest, a third of Americans say they're reading fewer books for personal enjoyment than they did 10 years ago — a decline that cuts across age and education ...

Correction: This article has been updated to show that 91.9% of Shelby County’s third grade students scored high enough to reach the cut score. Alabama’s third grade reading scores held steady this ...

You’re reading Progress Report, Jessica Winter’s column on family and K-12 education. Mac Barnett is a best-selling author of children’s books, including a suite of droll, spare picture-book ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Audiobooks are becoming more popular, raising the ...

Halfway through a sailor’s memoir, published 114 years ago, I’m realizing that it’s my all-time favorite book. “If I could sing, I would sing the banana ...