Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 4 to 8. By The New York Times Books Staff We polled our editors and writers about the best chapter books for beginning readers. These are our favorites ...

Melissa Taylor is a former teacher and literacy trainer as well as a mother of two, blogger, and children’s book expert. She created and writes the popular blog Imagination Soup. She is also a ...

As soon as the local library re-opened, Sam and his grandmother resumed the "Library Wednesdays" routine they had started just before his second birthday. She was an avid reader, and Sam was always ...

Successful readers and writers follow five brain-based phases to learn reading and spelling in English, according to cognitive science and neuroscience. This gradual two-year developmental process ...