What in the word?

The co-founder of Montgomery County community action group Brothers With Books, Isaac Cudjoe says: “When young people tell [co-founder] Kevin and I that they don’t like reading, what they’re telling…

Dioramas are a fun, hands-on way for kids to bring their favorite stories to life. In Planet Word’s magical library, nine artist-made dioramas are hidden among the bookshelves, waiting for…

Stepping inside the Franklin School these days is like walking into a surround-sound of onomatopoeia!  Buzzing, clanging, banging, and whooshing envelop us as we finish base-building work and the final…

“Language is going to change whether you like it or not. So you might as well like it.” — Helen Zaltzman, host of the linguistics podcast The Allusionist At Planet…

Planet Word was founded in our nation’s capital on purpose. Where else should a national museum of words and language be located? Our nation was built on words, on the…

When we started planning Planet Word, since no one had ever visited a word museum, people had lots of assumptions about what it would be like. One of the most-often…