"The amount of people reading aloud to their kids and kids reading for pleasure has dropped substantially," Tigges reports.
Rotarians have now raised more than $1.4 million and given 400,000 books to kids, libraries, teachers and classrooms ...
Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.