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Will Homer Save Us?

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Have we become a post-literate society? That’s the debate currently agitating historians, journalists, English teachers, and reading researchers. (Or, should I say, the debate that is raging once again, since…
Black and white image of George Washington and family
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…

Founder Ann Friedman talking to DC Mayor in Where Do Words Come From gallery
From the Founder

COVID Considerations

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…