A unique friendship is blooming between Fletcher Elementary School’s oldest and youngest learners. Every week, for 30 minutes ...

With an ever-changing array of funky earrings and crazy giant glasses, local actor Pam McGinnis engages youngsters, entertaining and educating as she reads popular children’s books aloud. She talks ...

This week, author Brenda Wrigley brought her children's book "Tim's Triumphant Trumpet" to life in a classroom at Valley View Elementary School ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Recently, I went out for drinks with a young woman who wanted advice about establishing herself as a book ...

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 ...

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Multnomah County leaders could face a sea change in the county’s Preschool for All program after a preliminary forecast showed a huge drop off in expected preschoolers who will fill classroom seats in ...

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A freight elevator outage delayed the popular Friends of the Columbia Public Library’s annual fall book sale until this weekend, with more than 13,000 books collected and shelved. The two-day sale ...

Are you a big fan of mindless crap? Well, you’re in luck. An excerpt of the fictional “Pluribus” book “Bloodsong of Wycaro,” the latest novel in Carol Sturka’s “Winds of Wycaro” romantasy series, is ...