reading

The state currently helps Imagination Library provide free books to 121,000 children under the age of five. But lawmakers cut funding to the program in the new budget.

In an effort to get kids and their caregivers reading outdoors, Seattle Public Library partnered with a local preschool to highlight Indigenous history and culture.

Book-lovers are buzzing about Independent Bookstore Day on April 29. BLMF Literary Saloon owner J.B. Johnson says owning a bookstore isn't easy but it is the greatest job in the world.

Kids in the Puget Sound region are counting down the days until summer vacation, but one middle school librarian in West Seattle has been working all year…

A great way for kids to brush up on reading skills? Why, reading to the barber, of course. That's the idea at one barbershop in Ypsilanti, Mich. Oh, and in Houston, Dubuque, Iowa, and Columbus, Ohio.

Go to the laundromat, wash the clothes, get lessons on how to do a great job reading books to your kids. Crazy idea? But it's really happening!

Some of Seattle’s most at-risk students are getting help with their reading skills, but not from people.Once a week, service dogs lend their ears to…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-956345.mp3They say you can’t tell a book by its cover. But maybe coming face to face…