Author Voices
Tips & Advice
How 10 Minutes a Day Can Tame the Entitlement Trend
Parenting expert Amy McCready shares tips to improve quality time with your kids and keep the “me, me, me” epidemic at bay.
Grown-Up Reads
What Jane Green’s Been Reading in 2016
We asked bestselling author Jane Green what she’s been reading, and loving, in 2016. Here are the books that topped her list.
Tween
A Reader's Best Friend: The Importance of Dogs in Life and Literature
I think we love dogs in our reading lives for the same reason we love them in our lives outside of reading: they’re just the most terrible liars.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Meet the Illustrator: Corey R. Tabor
We chatted with Corey Tabor, illustrator of the wonderful A Dark, Dark Cave, about the role public school played in his becoming an artist, how his own backyard adventures inspire him to create art, and more.
Growing Reader
Tween
Why Graphic Novels Are Storytelling Quicksand for Reluctant Readers (In a Good Way)
Some kids fall in love with reading. Some don’t. Judd Winick, author of Hilo, explains why he thinks the kids in the “don’t” column would dig comics.
Growing Reader
Tween
Simple Ways to Start Talking to Your Kids About Art
If you want to talk to your kids about art but don't know where to begin, start with these simple tips — perfect for your next art read or museum trip.
Tips & Advice
The Right Book, for the Right Child, at the Right Time: The Hurdles and Joys of Raising Readers
To be able to lose yourself in a book is bliss. Stories introduce us to people we might never meet, making us laugh and cry, and in the process enrich our lives.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
Graphic Novels? Yeah, They’re Fun for the WHOLE Family
There are LOTS of reasons why comics and graphic novels are great for the entire family — moms, dads, kids, really smart pets — everybody!
Grown-Up Reads
We Are All Made of Stars: Jenni Fagan on Letting Kids, and Characters, Be Themselves
After writing several novels, I’ve realized that it takes time to get to know a character. They rarely turn up wholly formed. They change as life does. They grow and alter.
Teen
Going Beyond ‘I Don’t Know’: 3 Tips for Having Honest Conversations with Your Teenager
"Internet-famous" celebrity, author, and teen go-to Jeffrey Marsh has some advice for parents who are having trouble connecting with their kids.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
10 Books for Budding Entrepreneurs and Can-Do Kids
Books about entrepreneurs can instill inspiring lessons about the hard work, creativity, and determination it takes to translate a vision into a reality.
Teen
Through Her Eyes and in Her Words: Jazz Jennings Writes Her Own (Transgender) Story
Jazz Jennings is no ordinary 15-year-old. She has a show on TLC, a vast YouTube following, and now a book. Brightly spoke with Jazz and her mother Jeanette about what it’s like to be trans, and a teen, in America today.
