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Red, White, and Rude: Picture Books to Help Politicians Behave Better on the Campaign Trail

In our most kind-but-firm parental manner, we offer some strongly recommended reading to help politicians improve their behavior on the campaign trail.

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Teen

YA Romance Novels That Emphasize Self-Love and Self-Respect

These young adult novels address a singular truth about romance: You can never truly love — or be loved — until you learn to love yourself first.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

Our Favorite Picture Book Dads of 2015

Contributor Tom Burns shares his picks for the best, most realistic, wonderfully flawed, and funny dads featured in picture books in 2015.

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Baby & Toddler

Pre-K

What My Kids' Books Have Taught Me About Being a Dad

These five books offer children — and their fathers — some very worthwhile life lessons … because, let’s face it, mothers already know it all.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

Tween

Teen

Books to Help Kids Make Sense of Challenging Current Events

These books can help children discuss and better process difficult world events such as war, immigration, discrimination, and environmental conservation.

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All Ages

Books We’re Thankful For: 6 Parents on the Kids’ Books They Love

In honor of Thanksgiving, we asked some phenomenal moms and dads what kids’ books they were most thankful for. Here’s what they told us.

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Growing Reader

Minding Our Manners: A Quirky Q&A with Delia Ephron

We asked screenwriter, playwright, and bestselling author Delia Ephron about her very funny manners book for children, how best to keep kids in line during the holidays, and what projects she’s working on now.

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Growing Reader

8 Picture Books I Still Read with My 8-Year-Old

Some kids have a hard time letting go of their books. One 8-year-old shares the picture books he's holding tight to and why he's keeping them around.

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Pre-K

Growing Reader

Friend Farmers: 3 Tools for Helping Kids Make and Keep New Friends

The first months of school are a great time to introduce kids to easy-to-remember tools that will help them cultivate new friendships and sprout community.

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Tips & Advice

How to Help Kids Find Joy in Cooking? Hand Them a Book.

Alana Chernila, author of The Homemade Kitchen, shares one way to help kids find joy and satisfaction in the kitchen: Give them a cookbook, and let the pages do the work.

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Grown-Up Reads

Hello, My Name Is Laura … and I Might Just Be a Book Club Failure

I love to read, I love my lady friends, and I love wine — I should be a book club natural, right? Wrong.

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Tween

How Unique Characters Can Teach Us About Ourselves and Each Other

Author Marilyn Hilton discusses the importance of diverse characters in books and shares how her own children inspired her middle grade novel, Full Cicada Moon.

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