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Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader

Hidden Fun! 11 of the Best Seek-and-Find Books for Kids

Great for long afternoons at home or car rides, these super fun seek-and-find books are sure to keep kids occupied and engaged.

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Baby & Toddler
Pre-K

8 Books That Make Wonderful Baptism Gifts

Whether you’re looking for books of prayers, beloved classics, or Bible stories, each book on this list will make a wonderful gift for a child on their special day.

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Tips & Advice

Books on Autism That Inform, Advise, and Empower

These books on autism show how diagnosis and treatment have progressed, how advocacy helps, and what may lie ahead for ASD children and adults.

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Teen

11 YA Novels in Verse Teens Won’t Want to Put Down

Even if your teen isn’t big on poetry, he or she will find something to love in these captivating stories.

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Tips & Advice

Adam Gidwitz on the Magic of Telling Stories to Your Child

After Adam Gidwitz's daughter had a frightful encounter with a fire alarm, he began to tell her stories — true stories about her experience. Over many months of telling that story, some magical things started to happen.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween

12 Reassuring Books to Help Kids Deal With Change

These books are perfect for starting conversations about changes with your children. They'll help your child know that they aren’t alone in navigating these changes.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader

4 Tips to Help Blended Families Connect

Blending a family doesn’t happen overnight. It's our job as parents to cut up the process into chewable moments to nurture a sense of safety that can ripen into feelings of family. Here are four tips to help blended families connect.

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Tips & Advice

7 Lessons I Learned from Ali Wong’s Dear Girls

When I cracked the spine of Ali Wong's book, "Dear Girls" — essays written as letters to her two young daughters — I expected to laugh. And I did. I did not expect to learn much about being a mom. But I did anyway.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader

Yee-haw! 12 Fantastic Picture Books for Country Music Lovers

Pull on those cowboy boots and get ready to honky-tonk! From books by country music stars to stories about rural life, these fabulous picture books are must-reads for avid country music fans and their kids.

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Tween
Teen

All-Time Favorite Fantasy Books for Tweens and Teens

Fantasy books bring the imagination to life and allow the impossible to occur. Here are some all-time favorite fantasy books for tween and teen readers.