Children have an insatiable appetite to understand why things are the way they are, leading to their apt description as "little scientists". While researchers have been aware of children's interest in ...

Many bestselling children’s storybooks, like The Lorax, aim to teach kids important moral lessons. But do they work? New research suggests that they probably don’t, but that parents can effectively ...

Young children have an easier time exporting what they learn from a fictional storybook to the real world when the storybook is realistic, says... A few years ago, my daughter requested that her ...

While publishers look to produce ever more colourful and exciting texts to entice buyers, University of Sussex psychologists have shown that having more than one illustration per page results in ...

DARTMOUTH — There are some strange things in the woods at Paskamansett Woods and Ridge Hill Reserve including a blue horse, purple cat and a fish with rainbow scales. And they have nothing to do with ...

TORONTO — Reading a storybook about embracing differences can reduce anxiety and boost self-esteem in children with a visible skin condition, the early results of an ongoing study suggested. So far, ...

A new storybook that aims to help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19 has been produced by a collaboration of more than 50 organizations working in the humanitarian sector, including ...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - "My alien has one big eye, purple spaghetti hair and octopus legs," explained 9-year-old Marli Flores. She then began to draw the main character on the cover of her newly ...

There is a whole mystical world in the minds of children that gradually gets lost as we age. There is a whole mystical world in the minds of children that gradually gets lost as we age. Or at least ...

Many bestselling children’s storybooks, like The Lorax, aim to teach kids important moral lessons. But do they work? New research suggests that they probably don’t, but that parents can effectively ...

Less is more when it comes to helping children learn new vocabulary from picture books, according to a new study. While publishers look to produce ever more colourful and exciting texts to entice ...