Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
Score an Easy Parenting Win: Read to Your Kids
Reading to your kids is a win-win-win. It's easy, it's educational, and it doesn't require parents to pretend-play or even move their tired bodies.
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Pre-K
How We Talk (or Don’t Talk) About Diversity When We Read with Our Kids
Author Matt de la Peña on how we consciously or unconsciously frame “diverse” stories when we read to our little ones.
Tips & Advice
10 Reasons Why Kids Need to Read Non-Disney Fairy Tales
Complicated, thought-provoking, and magical, old-school fairy tales are filled with complexities that are often missing from their big-screen retellings.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Fun with Language: Jokes, Tongue Twisters, and Poems
If your kid is in the market for funny poems, knock-knock jokes, or brain-bending riddles, these books will keep them turning pages and cracking up.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
How to Draw the Walrus from The Baseball Player and the Walrus
Ben Loory and Alex Latimer to give us the inside scoop on their new book The Baseball Player and the Walrus, including a step-by-step illustration how-to!
Growing Reader
Tween
How to Spot a Fake (Reader)
Your kid may seem like a real bookworm, but could they have you fooled? Here's how to tell the difference between a real reader and a fake.
Tips & Advice
Little House on the Prairie: The Next Generation
Laura Ingalls Wilder's books bring my son's attention away from the abstractions of modern life and into the more visceral features of our reality.
Baby & Toddler
7 Tips for Attending Library Storytime with Your Baby
As with all things with a new baby, it can be scary to jump right in. See how to make library storytime a fun and rewarding experience for you and your baby.
Tips & Advice
My Kids Don’t Love My Childhood Favorites. And That’s (Sort of) Okay with Me.
It took a storm and a blackout to find out that my boys just aren’t going to be the same kind of reader I always was.
