Reading to your kids is time well spent
Oral storytelling yields emotional, cognitive, and social benefits
World Magazine, February 2022
Meghan Cox Gurdon Illustration by Jonathan Bruns
Milton’s Paradise Lost is rarely read today. But this epic poem, at over 350 years old, remains a work of unparalleled imaginative genius that shapes English literature even now. In more than 10,000 lines of blank verse, it tells the story of the war for heaven and of man’s expulsion from Eden. Its dozen sections are an ambitious attempt to comprehend... Read more