With Artemis, NASA is going back to the Moon—and they want young people to come along! You Are Going, illustrated by former NASA intern Shane Tolentino, shares a glimpse into future Artemis missions.
Early Literacy/Reading/Language Arts
English language arts.
What’s the Story, Wishbone? goes behind-the-scenes of the beloved PBS series that turned classic literature into adventure, starring one unforgettable little dog with a very big imagination.
Counting down to America’s Semiquincentennial, Random House Children’s Books has unveiled Sing the 50 United States!—a picture book by Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr.Seuss—to be published in June 2026. Editors discovered this rhyming celebration of the United States, a mnemonic name game emceed by the Cat in the Hat, among Ted Geisel’s personal papers at University of California San Diego’s Geisel Library.
Each year National Read Across America Day is celebrated on March 2, the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. The annual event is part of Read Across America, an initiative launched in 1998 by the National Education Association (NEA) and guided by a committee of educators. This motivational and awareness day calls all children and youth in every community across the US to celebrate reading wherever they are.
Phoebe & Jay, an animated PBS KIDS series that premiered in February 2026, aims to foster and improve early literacy skills in children aged three to five.
The Library of Congress Literacy Awards program recognizes organizations that provide exemplary, innovative, and replicable strategies to promote literacy in the United States and abroad. The awards are intended to draw public attention to the importance of literacy and to encourage reading.
Award-winning children’s book authors Kate DiCamillo and Kelly Yang have launched StoryKind, a new podcast to spark the joy and connectivity of storytelling in children. The effort grew out of the authors’ shared concern about declining reading habits among children and their desire to inspire a renewed interest in reading and writing.
“In winter things are down to their essence and bare bones,” says David Lamon, manager of the Field Pond Audubon Center in Holden, Maine. Have you ever stopped to look closely at nature during wintertime? What did you notice?
Here’s to keeping it interesting. Pushing the envelope. Pushing boundaries. Pushing buttons. Here’s to children’s books that expand our assumptions of what a children’s book can be.
The LiTEArary Society is the world’s largest entirely youth-led, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of ending book deserts for disadvantaged children. Since its inception, The LiTEArary Society has grown into a family of social book clubs that collectively have donated thousands of new, high-quality picture books to children in need and participated in countless community read-aloud events.