This archived news story is available only for your personal ... you should try a picture book without words, too. New research shows when parents read books without text, they are more engaged ...

It was a book ... the story a little bit. I cursed the book's "author," Dan Yaccarino, for his laziness. Turns out there's a reason for books with few or no words. A good reason. Books without ...

Herman Melville's Moby Dick is a tale told in 212,507 words. Those words ... Ishmael" is the period after it. Without punctuation, the first two lines of the book would read something like ...