Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

Parenting experts have written numerous books—countless pages—on best practices for raising children. However, therapists share that simple, one to three-word phrases can make all the difference in a ...

In a desperate parenting moment after dinner, I told my six-year-old, who was mid-meltdown, to “use your words!” He had just started yelling and hitting his eight-year-old sister because she wasn’t ...

Opened in 2007, the Worlds of Words Center of Global Literacies and Literature is a research library and resource center at UA’s College of Education. Most visibly, it is a collection of 40,000 books.

When I pulled out a copy of "The Lost Words," my seven-year-old son stared in amazement. The book is huge, nearly as tall as his torso, and when I opened it up, it spread across both of our laps. He ...

Discussing body parts and bodily autonomy with young children is an essential conversation that can shape their future ...

Every day brings another skirmish around book banning and another complaint crossing a librarian’s desk. Picture book author Jenny Fox, who writes as J.F. Fox (Friday Night Wrestlefest), is on a ...

I was at a 4-year-old’s birthday party recently with enough kids to give even the most capable parent a panic attack. There was a lot of running around and screeching and general pandemonium, as to be ...