

The day Christopher Nolan called Cillian Murphy about his new film, Oppenheimer, Murphy hung up the phone in disbelief. Doctor-novelist Abraham Verghese unpacks his long-awaited new epic Abraham Verghese’s work as a physician and his mother’s stories both inspired his ambitious new novel, The Covenant of Water. (Reading on the platform had increased 89% from 2019 to 2020 and in 2021 it held steady at that same elevated level.)Ĭhildren ages 3 to 5 using Epic spent an average of 81 minutes a month reading in 2021, and users younger than age eight spent the majority of their time on the platform engaging with Epic’s Read-to-Me content. In ‘Oppenheimer,’ Cillian Murphy leads a Nolan epic.

That’s the same rate Epic reported for the year 2020, when its research indicated that the amount of time kids spent reading on the app increased significantly due to school closures and the pandemic lockdown. In 2021, platform users ages 6 to 12 spent an average of 99 minutes per month reading on Epic. Those results, combined with Epic’s aggregated and anonymized platform data tracking 50 million kid users, comprise the new report. Epic commissioned research firm Morning Consult to conduct an online poll of a nationwide sample of 1,000 parents of children ages 5 to 12 to ask them about kids’ interests and reading behaviors over the prior year. Instant access to thousands of great kids books. INTERSTELLAR ADVENTURE Lyra a 7-year-old girl never imagined that a walk in a mystical garden would lead to joining scientists trying.

Digital reading app Epic has released its second annual Read All About It report about the state of kids’ reading. Get unlimited access to 40,000 of the best books, audiobooks, videos, & more for kids 12 and under.
