Educator Resources
Growing Reader
Tween
Teen
The Read Ahead: Kid Lit News & Views — March 2016 Edition
The Read Ahead is a new series on Brightly that aims to explore current events, trends, and unique views in children’s and young adult literature.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
5 Tips for Raising Children With Active Imaginations
Author and early childhood education expert Erika Christakis shares five tips to help you open the imagination of your young child.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader
5 Books That Teach Kids What It Means to Be a Kind Person
These five books (and one bonus pick) are great places to start raising children who are kind caretakers of the people around them.
Tween
Advice from a Kid Author: How Grown-Ups Can Get Kids Writing
Jake Marcionette, bestselling kid author of the Just Jake series for middle-graders, shares his tips for grown-ups looking to inspire kids to write more.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Math Stories Your Child Will Actually Enjoy
Reading math-related stories is an easy way to work mathematics into your child’s daily life — without it feeling like a school assignment.
Growing Reader
Tween
A Grandmother’s Gift: A Q&A with Sharon M. Draper
We chatted with Sharon M. Draper, author of Stella by Starlight, about her inspiration for the book, her writing challenges, loving family, and good food.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween
Sweet Books for Your Budding Chocolatier
If your child is a card-carrying chocoholic — the kind that prefers their s’mores without the superfluous graham crackers and marshmallows — here are a few sumptuously sweet books they’re sure to eat up.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
5 Books To Fill Up Your Child’s Heart
Author Courtney DeFeo shares five touching books that will remind kids that they are loved, supported, and capable of greatness.
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.
Teen
Love Is in the Air: 11 Teen Romance Books
These eleven teen romances are guaranteed to make you fall in love — at least for a few hours.
Growing Reader
Tween
A Special Note to Readers of Stella by Starlight
Author Sharon Draper shares a special note to Brightly's Book Club for Kids readers about the inspiration behind Stella by Starlight.
Growing Reader
Tween
Brightly's Book Club for Kids: Stella by Starlight
The second installment of the Brightly's Book Club for Kids features Sharon M. Draper's Stella by Starlight, a beautiful novel based on the life of the author’s grandmother.
