Barbershop Books, an organization whose award‑winning literacy programs celebrate, amplify, and affirm the interests of Black boys while inspiring kids to read for fun, has spent more than a decade ...

Edward Stratemeyer had a plan to get American children reading. An ambitious paper merchant in Newark, New Jersey, he’d founded a publishing company, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, in 1906, with the goal ...

Raising boys who respect women is increasingly part of a broader cultural conversation around gender equality and healthy relationships. Research shows that early reading plays a measurable role in ...