Growing Reader
Tween
Portraying Pax in Pencil: A Q&A with Illustrator Jon Klassen
You probably know Jon Klassen from his delightfully humorous books I Want My Hat Back and This Is Not My Hat. Now you’ll also know him as the artist behind the poignant illustrations in Pax.
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
5 Graphic Novels for ‘Captain America’ Fans
We parsed through 75 years’ worth of Captain America comic books and narrowed it down to five must-read graphic novels, essential for every Marvel movie fan.
Just For Fun
12 Sweet Children’s Book Quotes About Motherhood
To celebrate moms everywhere we've rounded up some inspiring and heartfelt quotes about motherhood from a few of our favorite kids' books.
Growing Reader
Tween
On Exploring Empathy with Children Through Pax
Sara Pennypacker, author of Pax, shares the two central topics she aimed to explore with her moving book, and the importance of encouraging kids' empathy.
Grown-Up Reads
9 Books for Stay-at-Home Parents Returning to Work
Whether you’ve stayed at home with your children for a couple of years or a couple of decades, there are unique challenges to returning to work. Here are some books that can help along the way.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
4 Keys to Resolving Conflict with Your Kid
Every parent and child fights — and these guidelines from negotiation expert Dr. Shapiro can help moms and dads resolve conflicts with kids of all ages.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader
How Story Helped My Family Through Trauma
Every so often, despite the perfect ultrasounds, easy pregnancy, and crazy research that has ensured your delivery and baby and life with a newborn will go off without a hitch, things happen that are totally outside any realm of possibility you’ve ever imagined.
Growing Reader
Tween
Brightly’s Book Club for Kids: Pax
Destined to be a classic, Pax highlights the special bond between a child and pet, and the lengths the two will go to reunite after they are separated. We dare you not to fall in love with this fox and his boy.
Grown-Up Reads
Over the River and Through the Woods: Lesley Stahl on Becoming Grandma
Becoming a gran exhilarated me with a new purpose. The change was so big and granular and unexpected, I wanted to understand it. So I took out my reporter’s notepad and a tape recorder and set off on a journey, a quest, to find out what was happening to me.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
From Mother to Daughter: Passing Reading Memories Forward
As I began to read, the smell of the books and the words of the poem truly made me teary. I could remember my mom reading it to me. I could remember each and every line after all these years.