Just For Fun
11 Things I Will Never, Ever Admit to My Local Librarian
A library parent (who occasionally does things he’s not exactly proud of) shares the deep, dark secrets his family has kept from their local librarians.
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Growing Reader
Mentor Texts To Teach Children Personal Narrative Writing
Studying fantastic mentor texts exposes students to examples that elevate their personal narrative writing. To expand your classroom’s collection of personal narrative mentor texts, consider these picture books.
Tween
Teen
On the Complexity of Human Stories: A Q&A with Veera Hiranandani
Veera Hiranandani discusses The Night Diary, her moving novel that follows a family’s difficult journey as refugees seeking a new home during the Partition of India in 1947.
Tween
Teen
Brightly’s Book Club for Kids: The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani’s The Night Diary is an empathy-building, engaging historical novel that middle grade, young adult, and grown-up readers can all enjoy. Dive deeper into the story with these discussion questions and activities for kids.
Pre-K
Brightly Storytime: My Little Golden Book About Sharks
Get ready for Shark Week by reading along with My Little Golden Book About Sharks, a picture book full of fascinating facts for little shark-lovers to sink their teeth into.
Pre-K
The Froggy Series Is Full of Big Lessons and Everyday Humor
Since the first Froggy book appeared in 1992, Froggy has been enthusiastically embraced by teachers, librarians, parents, and, most importantly, children.
Pre-K
Bookshelf Must-Have: Llama Llama Loves to Read
With fun-to-read rhymes and colorful illustrations, this book from beloved author Anna Dewdney will delight little ones learning to read and all fans of the Llama Llama series.
Growing Reader
Tween
10 Imaginative Scenes for Teaching Children to Visualize as They Read
Whether students naturally imagine as they read or need to be taught to do so, they can all benefit from structured practice creating mental images with books like these.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
My Go-To Picture Books for Reading as a Family
Elyssa Friedland shares the five books that successfully entertain her three children, who span the ages of four to ten.
Grown-Up Reads
10 Brand-New Books to Add to Your TBR List This Month
From goosebumps-raising thrillers to moving memoirs to thought-provoking essay collections, July has a new book to please every adult reader.
