This is the book, then , and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your child–even though you yourself do not understand what is written down and...

What happened to the classics?” you may ask. “Don’t you believe in reading great literature to children?”Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television...

The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes into a confetti of images. Truly, of all the gifts given to man,...