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Indigenous Languages Rising: An Urgent Call to Uphold Language Rights

Languages are more than just words — they carry heritage, identity, and culture, ensuring they’re passed on to future generations. Yet many Indigenous and non-dominant languages face the threat of…
Children reading books on the Story Table in Planet Word's magic Library
From the Founder

What Is Reading For?

Recently the New York Times devoted an entire Sunday Opinion section to the question “What Is School For?” What a crazy question, I thought! Being a former teacher, the mother…

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From the Founder

Lessons Passed Down

My favorite gift to newborns is, you guessed it, a book, but one that I especially like to give (along with Pat the Bunny!) is any edition of Mother Goose…