A new children’s book, titled Simple Machines Made Simple, wants to demystify mechanical engineering for kids as young as a year old. It recently beat its Kickstarter goal by 700%—raising more than ...

Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? When villainy threatens the Saubers family, they fortunately hit the radar of an eccentric trio (also from the first book): Ex-cop Bill Hodges, tech ...

There is something extraordinarily magical the moment a child realizes that they are able to read. You can see it in their eyes; it's the "Ah-ha! I get it!" The once jumble of confusing shapes that ...