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All book lovers know that any day is the perfect day to sit down with a new book or an old favorite, but sometimes the realities of life leave our…

“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” There’s more than one reason to celebrate today! While everyone is getting ready to watch fireworks for Independence Day, we’re also celebrating one of our…

The following is a guest blog post written by Dr. Charlotte Vaughn and Hannah Mechtenberg.   In this guest blog, we’re delighted to introduce you to the Language Science Station,…

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…

In just a few days, “It’s gonna be May.” If you frequent social media, you have most likely seen this classic meme welcoming the start of May. The meme depicts…

Despite the obvious challenges, we went ahead and opened Planet Word in the “midst” of the COVID-19 pandemic. (I almost wrote “middle,” but that would imply that we had a…