A practice known as “shared book reading"—engaging children by pointing to pictures, discussing word meanings, and the sequence of events in a book during one-on-one or small-group settings—has widely ...
Chip Kidd's second novel, "The Learners," (Scribner, $26, 258 pages) is a fascinating study of the shape and texture of words. The way words appear on the page is a novelty: The typesettings literally ...