At first glance, a dictionary seems pretty straightforward: Words are listed alphabetically, and you simply locate the right page and scan until you find the word you’re looking for. But there’s a lot you might not know about these essential reference too

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Her identity was a mystery for decades.
New research confirms that people who grow up with books at home tend to have higher reading comprehension and better mathematical and digital communication skills.
You would never know from his books that Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine used to write joke books for kids under the name Jovial Bob Stine
Show off your love of reading.
Walt Disney's Disneyland provides an inside look at how the iconic theme park came to be.
One of our favorite childhood stories is coming to life again.
Each year, hundreds of formal challenges asking for the removal of “inappropriate” books from shelves and syllabi are filed with schools and libraries across the country.
The Holy Bible is regularly challenged for having a "religious viewpoint."
3. The Nagini film theory is incorrect.
Celebrate Banned Books Week by giving these once-censored classics a read.
“Cut out all these exclamation points," F. Scott Fizgerald once said. "An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
3. Benedict Cumberbatch has Reddit to (partly) thank for the Emmy-nominated role.
A world without Roald Dahl would be a world without Oompa Loompas, Snozzcumbers, or Muggle-Wumps. And who would ever want to live in a world like that?
The dictionary goes from aardvark to zozimus because "every dictionary has to start with aardvark; otherwise it would have to start with aback, which is just too boring."