An innovative new Australian publishing company, The Reading Mountain, is tackling worrying literacy statistics by providing an exciting series… Read more

Many parents find that their boys either aren’t interested in sitting still long enough,… Read more

With a mid-year break about to start for some, and inspired by Kylie Johnston’s suggestion in Motherpedia of… Read more

It may be tempting to put a book in your child’s hands even before… Read more

School holidays have begun for some, or are very close to beginning, for most.

I have a… Read more

A report published by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research has found that 4-year-olds… Read more

A couple of years ago, early one morning, I received… Read more

More than a third of all primary-school age children around the world still cannot read or write, whether… Read more

The capacity of dogs to help with children’s literacy levels is being put to the test… Read more

A national survey released in the United States during the week showed that kids aged 9-17 years are… Read more

“People cannot blame teachers for everything,” says best selling children’s author, Mem Fox.

Mem was commenting on… Read more

One week after a Global Education Index ranked Australia 13th out of 40 countries, the Australian Council of… Read more

What makes a child love reading? The best way to answer that question, according to many early childhood… Read more