WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Dozens of children's books are in Maddy Carpenter's kindergarten classroom at Cochran Primary School in Williamsport. But one book stands out, written by Mrs. Carpenter and her ...

The idea: At some point, children learn that a squiggle on a page represents something, and then that the squiggle we call text has a more specific meaning than what we call a drawing. “Dog,” for ...

A new book might be the most radical way to learn your ABCs yet. Rad American Women A-Z, written by Kate Schatz and illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl, is the first children's book to be published by ...

Celebrate your child’s scribbles. A novel experiment shows that even before learning their ABCs, youngsters start to recognise that a written word symbolises language in a way a drawing doesn’t — a ...