Author Voices
Just For Fun
Get the Scoop: 5 Things You Never Knew About Ice Cream
In the process of writing her book Sweet Spot, Amy Ettinger uncovered some surprising truths about America’s favorite dessert. Here are some fun facts to share with ice cream eaters of all ages.
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice
From Teacher to Parent: Positive Discipline Tools That Work
The Positive Discipline approach provides a model that takes everyday misbehaviors and turns these trying moments into opportunities to teach children the important life skills they’ll need to be successful in the long-term.
Growing Reader
Tween
Knights in Training: Books About Adventure, Chivalry, and Courage for Young Readers
Author Heather Haupt shares how tales of knights and grand adventures can help kids appreciate and embrace the virtues of chivalry, bravery, and compassion.
Grown-Up Reads
How to Not Lose Your Mind Going Back to Work Post-Baby
In the head-spinning days post-baby, my too-high expectations bit me in the butt. With that in mind, here are three common misconceptions about returning to work as a postpartum mom.
Just For Fun
Yaa Gyasi’s 5 Favorite Books from Childhood
We were thrilled to ask Yaa Gyasi, author of the breathtaking Homegoing, about the books she loved most as a child and remembers fondly to this day.
Tips & Advice
How to Find the Ideal Reading Environment for Your ADHD Child
In his 30 years of practicing psychiatry, James M. Greenblatt, M.D., has helped many families find the most successful reading environments for their ADHD children.
Growing Reader
Goldie Blox Gets Her Own Chapter Book Series, Helping Girls See Themselves as Future Engineers
The new Goldie Blox series paints a clear picture of a girl engineer that all readers can learn from — a character who uses STEM to navigate everyday middle school problems.
Just For Fun
Grown-Up Reads
Four Truths About Reading I Learned from My Children
As author Susan Meissner's kids started picking out what they wanted to read, she found herself learning more about them, and about reading, by the books they chose.
Tween
Many Gifts Can Come Through Grief, and Sharing Stories Is One
All the knowledge we gain in this life does not come without a price. Some learning comes at great cost. But with great cost comes great growth if you choose to accept it.
Teen
Smothering: Holding Our Kids Close, But Knowing When to Let Go
Nicola Yoon, mom and author of Everything, Everything, shares her hard-fought realization that protecting your child necessarily means letting them go.
Tween
Ruth Behar on Being Broken and Finding Strength
We chatted with the author of Lucky Broken Girl about her semi-autobiographical novel for middle grade readers and finding the strength to move through life’s obstacles.
Growing Reader
Tween
Brand-New to America and Learning, One Book at a Time
Author and ELL teacher Ruth Freeman shares some of the challenges children learning to read in English encounter and which stories get her students hooked on books.
