Reading Runs in the Family

Today show cohosts Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin on how they raise their kids to be readers

- by KAREN CICERO

Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin have something in common beyond anchoring the Today show: Their kids are the same ages and are going through similar phases when it comes to reading. By the tween years, “most kids, mine included, aren't going to choose a book over a screen,” says Guthrie, mom to Vale, 11, and Charley, 8. As for Melvin—dad to Delano, 11, and Sybil, 8—his family’s story-time routine has evolved as his kids have learned to read. “They don't let me read to them with funny voices like when they were little, so we