Learning the letters of the alphabet are the first steps to reading. It’s never too early for parents to start teaching the alphabet to their children. Most children between the ages of 3-4 can ...

BAD ALPHABET and counting books are easy to come by these days. Because the market for children’s books continues to grow despite the recession, some publishers rush to print books of dubious quality.

Of all the apps I’ve reviewed and purchased over last few years, Endless Alphabet—a free educational kids app for iPhone and iPad—is the one that my 4-year-old son has loved the most, far and away. He ...

• How Many Baby Pandas? by Sandra Markle (Walker, $15.99, ages 4 to 8) -- Youngsters learn basic counting skills as they view photographs of the eight super-cute panda pairs born in 2005 at China's ...

Here is an abbreviated list of the people and works cited in The Atlantic’s 1859 essay “Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?”: Socrates, Joan of Arc, Moliere, Ovid, Sappho, Charlemagne, Mohammed, Boaz, ...