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Children's Books About Books
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader

8 Delightful Children's Books That Celebrate the Joy of Reading

These picture books zero in on the pure joy of storytelling and are just the thing for parents who want to plant and nurture the love of reading in their children.

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Tween

Many Gifts Can Come Through Grief, and Sharing Stories Is One

All the knowledge we gain in this life does not come without a price. Some learning comes at great cost. But with great cost comes great growth if you choose to accept it.

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Teen

Smothering: Holding Our Kids Close, But Knowing When to Let Go

Nicola Yoon, mom and author of Everything, Everything, shares her hard-fought realization that protecting your child necessarily means letting them go.

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Growing Reader
Tween
Teen

7 Books That Help Parents Explain All the Things We Don’t Know How to Explain

For parents out there who are frantically trying to explain why the sky is blue, these remarkable books can help you explain everything from puberty to mortality to all the esoteric things in between.

Middle Grade Books About Divorce
Tween

10 Thoughtful Novels That Deal with Divorce for Tweens

If you know a middle grade reader who is struggling to understand their parents’ separation or divorce, we hope these books will help them feel a little less alone.

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Tween

Ruth Behar on Being Broken and Finding Strength

We chatted with the author of Lucky Broken Girl about her semi-autobiographical novel for middle grade readers and finding the strength to move through life’s obstacles.

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Growing Reader
Tween

Brand-New to America and Learning, One Book at a Time

Author and ELL teacher Ruth Freeman shares some of the challenges children learning to read in English encounter and which stories get her students hooked on books.

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Just For Fun

I’m Nearing the End of Bedtime Reading with My Daughter and It’s Breaking My Heart

I can feel time creeping up on us. And lately it’s been hitting me in an unexpected location. Bedtime reading.

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Teen

5 Secrets to Help Decode Your Teen’s Behavior

Parenting teens can be a roller coaster ride filled with mood swings, arguments, and confusion. Vanessa Van Edwards, a human behavior investigator, offers insights to help parents better understand why teens act the way they do.

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Tips & Advice

Why the Music of Reading Aloud Matters for Kids

We talked to a reading expert to find out how reading prosody — a.k.a. the art of reading with inflection and emphasis — impacts fluency and understanding for kids.