Grown-Up Reads
How Losing Ourselves in Stories Can Help Us Find Our Greater Truths
Rhiannon Navin wasn’t planning on featuring a beloved kids’ book series in Only Child, her novel about a boy coping with trauma. Yet, the more she progressed, the more it made sense.
Tween
6 Fascinating Things You Might Not Know About Laura Ingalls Wilder
Even if you are a fan like myself, you probably live with a number of misconceptions about Laura Ingalls Wilder. Here are six things you might not know about her life.
Baby & Toddler
Bookshelf Must-Have: Open the Garage Door
This sturdy lift-the-flap book is full of exciting surprises and fun vehicles that will keep your baby or toddler delighted each and every reading.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
The Best Children’s and YA Books of February 2018
From stories about inspiring trailblazers to timely tales of inclusion and compassion, there’s plenty of great new books to keep young readers feeling warm on the inside this month.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Storytime Surprises: Sophie Kinsella’s Favorite Books to Read as a Family
All five of my children spent much of their babyhoods sitting on my knee, turning pages, lifting flaps, and learning the greatest question of all time: What happens next?
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Talking Love with Matt de la Peña
"Humans are often consumed with human things. But love is everywhere, even in inanimate objects. We’re so lucky to be alive. To know the sky, and the smell of the ocean, and the power of a storm."
Grown-Up Reads
The Best Grown-Up Reads of February 2018
This February offers an especially enticing group of fiction and nonfiction — books so engaging that they’re sure to beat the mid-winter blues.
Tween
Role Models in Science Fiction? My Daughters Asked Where They Were
It was a weeknight and one of my twin daughters, who was in middle school at the time, had marched into the room, brandishing a book she’d finished. “Why are books with science in them always about boys?” she wanted to know.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Brightly Storytime: The Night Before Valentine’s Day
We're gearing up for Valentine's Day with a special reading of The Night Before Valentine's Day, an adorable picture book by Natasha Wing with illustrations by Heidi Petach.
Teen
The Page-Turning Allure of the British Upper Class
M. A. Bennett shares the personal experience that inspired S.T.A.G.S., her YA mystery about a girl who wins a scholarship to an exclusive English boarding school.