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.
Just For Fun
Tips & Advice
9 Bits of Mom Wisdom Shared by Brightly Readers
We asked Brightly readers to share the best bits of wisdom passed down to them by their moms. These were some of the best answers we heard.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
How to Throw a Make Way for Ducklings Party
Make way! Ducklings — er, we mean birthday kid coming through! Check out our fun book-themed ideas — from treats and décor to crafts and games.
Growing Reader
Tween
Meet the Illustrator: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
When Jarrett J. Krosoczka isn't thinking up hilarious plot twists in his Lunch Lady graphic novel series, he writes and illustrates a variety of picture and middle grade books, and hosts “The Book Report with JJK."
Pre-K
Growing Reader
7 Picture Books for Children Moving to a New Home
A few picture books go a long way to opening a discussion and helping children know what to expect before the big moving day.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
The Book’s the Thing: Shakespeare for Kids of All Ages
Books inspired by the Bard! These fun retellings can help make Shakespeare accessible and entertaining to kids and young adults.
Just For Fun
5 Fun Parenting Lessons from the Animal Kingdom
These sweet, funny, and oh-so-real animal facts prove that there are parenting lessons to be found among all species — humans, bees, and sharks alike.