NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jeff Conyers, president and vice chair of the Dollywood Foundation, about Dolly Parton's philanthropy, including the Imagination Library.

Parton was a published author of several children’s books, many memoirs, a thriller novel and a cookbook. The celebrated ...

Dolly Parton was an avid reader and dedicated over 30 years to giving children free books. Here's how the literary world will ...

That makes it more crucial than ever for families to understand how children learn to read — through implicit exposure at ...

Book Week is a great opportunity for parents and carers to inspire a love of reading in babies and toddlers.

About two weeks after giving birth, Bridget María Chesterton was curled up on the bathroom floor, saying things that made ...

Much like stretching before a workout, solving riddles helps bend the brain into new shapes, priming your mind to think abstractly. For kids in particular, that intersection of wordplay and logic not ...

From ‘Mouthful of Birds’ to ‘Good and Evil and Other Stories,’ the Argentine writer has built one of the most distinctive and ...

Now 22 years of age, Poppy wrote her first book when she was just 17 years old, The Tall Poppy & The Small Rose.

A bittersweet story about a tree that becomes a pencil and a novel about a teenage boy who defies his toxic dad are among the ...

Vietnam couple who left conventional schooling to let their kids learn from travellers, kitchens and farms across India and ...

The best kids and family-friendly movies to watch on Netflix in August 2026 include 'Minions' and 'Annie' with Cameron Diaz ...