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Story Time from Space is a project of the Global Space Education Foundation, which sends children’s books to the International Space Station. While in space, astronauts record themselves on video reading these books to the children of Earth and share them on the Story Time from Space website.

Feeling stressed? Read a book! Multiple studies have shown that reading can boost your mental health. Books make your stress go down by reducing your heart rate, easing muscle tension, and providing an escape. Storytelling improves feelings of connectedness, and novels may help to increase our empathy for others. If adulting makes you anxious, read [...]

In Austin Kleon’s book Keep Going, he advises readers to “read old books…almost every problem you have has probably been written about by some other human living hundreds if not thousands of years before you.” If you’re feeling alone or blue about current affairs, getting to know an author from long ago can help you [...]

School is a place to learn to read and also to read to learn. Students begin learning letters and sounds and by the time they are through the primary grades they are reading longer passages and beginning to understand that reading is a skill they will need in all subject areas. Sometimes students begin to [...]