In honor of World Read Aloud Day on March 7, a question: What children's story from your early years do you remember most? My favorite was "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen. I remember fondly my older sister reading the story to me aloud,...

Reading the 9th edition of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care has me time-traveling, and not just because it was originally published in 1945.  The baby care section catapulted me back to the year 2000, when I was entering stay-at-home parenthood and my anxiety over nonstop childcare dwarfed any post-Y2K...

Over at the Parentlode Book Club we've been discussing how to teach children not only to read, but to love to read. (You can read the prior installments here and here.) Most recently we looked specifically at boys, and Vincent O'Keefe, a book...