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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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!
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.
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.
Growing Reader
Tween
My BFG: A Special Note from Roald Dahl's Daughter
Lucy Dahl opens a window into her childhood as the daughter of creative genius Roald Dahl and shares how the BFG took shape in the nightly bedtime stories he told.
Grown-Up Reads
5 Things I Never Expected to Love About Being a Dad
I always imagined that I would have a son — but, instead of sons, I had three daughters. And from the time they came into the world, bright pink and bawling, I never looked back, not even for a moment.
Tips & Advice
All Work and No Play? Easy Ways to Add More Fun to the Everyday
It turns out fun is not folly — it’s actually the rich stuff that holds us all together. As the old saying goes: Families who play together, stay together.
Growing Reader
Tween
Brightly’s Book Club for Kids: The BFG
This month’s Family Book Club pick is big — and we mean big! The BFG, by Roald Dahl, is huge on charm, laughs, suspense, and heart.
Growing Reader
Tween
Broadway Musicals by the Book: 5 Children’s and YA Stories Adapted to (and from) the Stage
These stories have inspired stage adaptations and are perfect to read as a family before listening to the soundtrack and (if you're lucky) seeing them onstage.
Grown-Up Reads
Your Week-by-Week Guide to the Best Books of Summer 2016
Whether you've set a personal reading challenge or are just looking for a new bedtime book, you'll find some gems on this list of upcoming grown-up releases.
