Tips & Advice
How to Diversify Your Child’s Bookshelves
There is a world of beautiful, complex tales out there. Here are a few ways to step outside our reading comfort zones to experience and share its richness.
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Thank You, Educators!
This year, Teacher Appreciation Week looks a little different than usual. And after everything that's been thrown your way recently, you deserve a break!
Baby & Toddler
Cumber-Baby-Book-Batch: Suggested Baby Books to Celebrate Benedict and Sophie’s New Addition
We’ve been eagerly awaiting news from the Hunter-Cumberbatch camp about the arrival of their new baby and while we were pacing the floor, we composed this special list of suggested titles for raising a well-versed Cumberbatch-fanbaby (Cumberbaby?).
Grown-Up Reads
How Mama Got Her Groove Back — Through Books
I asked some fellow parents what they read to reinvigorate, fill the soul, or just pull them up and out of the weeds of parenting.
Just For Fun
Help! ‘Free-Range Kid’ Epidemic Is Spreading to Picture Books
Where are their parents!? Child Protective Services needs to take a look at the parents of these "free-range" kids' book characters!
Tips & Advice
Fun and Easy Ways to Get Kids Interested in Poetry
When your kids think of poetry, do their eyes light up with delight? If not, here are some simple ways to make poetry fun and interesting for them!
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
5 Graphic Novels to Excite Your Young “Avengers” Fan
If your junior heroes want to read more about the exploits of Earth’s mightiest heroes, here are some suggestions that should delight any "Avengers" movie fan.
Tips & Advice
Why I Help My Child with Writing Assignments (But You Shouldn’t)
As parents, should we be helping our kids with school reading and writing assignments? The answer isn't always so clear-cut, at least it isn't for me.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
There Are Many Different Ways to Read A Book
Just after my son was born, my mother gave me a book called A Book. Although the book is a picture book, she made sure I knew it was really a gift for me.
Tips & Advice
13 Reading Ideas for the Child Who Needs to Move
Sitting and reading? It’s SO HARD for some kids. Here's how to forgo sitting still and still get your little one to read.
