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Tips & Advice

How to Use Book Awards to Find Great Children’s Books

If you dig deeper into book awards, you’ll find that loads are given on both the state and national levels, and they can serve as great resources for finding quality books for kids.

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Tween
Teen

Steampunk Stories: Crazy, Funky Tales Your Tween or Teen Will Love

Which kinds of books do you give to kids who love mechanical mayhem, history, time travel, and fantasy all rolled into one? How about a little steampunk?

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Just For Fun

9 Children’s Book Authors on the Joys of Summer Reading

The best reading recommendations oftentimes come from authors themselves. So we asked kids' book authors to share their best tips, titles, and advice for how to make summer reading special. Here's what they had to say.

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Teen

The 8 Most Lovably Awkward Characters in YA Books

Awkwardness is one of the best traits in a literary character. YA authors Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison pay tribute to a few of the greats!

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Growing Reader
Tween

Aha! Fun and Yummy Science Experiments Kids Can Do at Home

Kids love a good science experiment, and these books are jam-packed with hands-on activities that will engage your children for hours.

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Growing Reader
Tween

Why The BFG Is My Daughter’s Favorite Roald Dahl Book

The BFG is not Dahl’s most famous work, so why does my kid treasure it above all of his other books? It all comes down to this universal feeling.

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Tips & Advice

5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Summer

If we let it, summer can easily pass us by in a whirlwind. Here are five ideas to help you make the most of summertime with your family.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween

The Best Children’s Books of Summer 2016

Kick off the summer book season with one of these hot new picture book and chapter book releases!

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Baby & Toddler
Pre-K

Meet the Illustrator: Juana Medina

Little kids will love 1 Big Salad: A Delicious Counting Book, Juana Medina's picture book featuring vegetables transformed into adorably expressive animals.

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Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice

How I Learned to Curb My Parental Expectations and Love the Boy I Got

Here are five common expectations about raising children that I frequently heard from parents, things many of us think we want for our kids, and the realities of each.