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Language, Liberty & the Weight of America’s 250th Anniversary

Shortly after Planet Word opened, I told our programming staff that we needed to begin thinking about how we would observe special, word-related occasions. Well, the biggest one of all…
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Words of the Year 2022

At Planet Word, we strive to make the museum experience fun, playful, unexpected, motivational, meaningful, and inclusive, and each of our galleries brings words and language to life in different…

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Prison Reading

So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…

From the Founder

Words and Actions

Planet Word was intended to be place where people would have fun with language, a joyful place where people would come together to use their words, that shined a spotlight…

Children reading books on the Story Table in Planet Word's magic Library
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What Is Reading For?

Recently the New York Times devoted an entire Sunday Opinion section to the question “What Is School For?” What a crazy question, I thought! Being a former teacher, the mother…