With the start of school rapidly approaching, teachers and parents are trying to solve the problem of the "summer slump," the significant setback in reading skills a lot of kids experience when they return from summer vacation.

One library program is bolstering the reading confidence of kids by having them read aloud to an unlikely tutor...a fluffy Akita named Willow.

Today on Word of Mouth, a conversation with Margaret Atwood, recorded live at the Music Hall in Portsmouth as part of the “Writers on a New England Stage” series.  Virginia spoke with the award winning author of the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s ...