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Books for Children and Teens That Touch on Incarceration

Millions of children have been touched by incarceration. These stories help children deal with the emotional difficulty of being separated from those they love, and encourage compassion from children who don’t personally have a parent in jail.

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Picture Books That Celebrate BIPOC Dads

Enjoy these sweet books that celebrate the BIPOC fathers in your life. Because all fathers deserve to see themselves reflected in the books they read to their kids.

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Brightly Storytime: A Lullaby of Summer Things

Follow along as a little girl and her family return home after a perfect day at the beach in our latest Brightly Storytime read.

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Brightly Storytime: Patience, Patches!

Can the rambunctious pup Patches learn to adjust when his moms bring home a new baby? Follow along with our latest Brightly Storytime to find out!

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4 Tips to Help Blended Families Connect

Blending a family doesn’t happen overnight. It's our job as parents to cut up the process into chewable moments to nurture a sense of safety that can ripen into feelings of family. Here are four tips to help blended families connect.

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10 Books That Embrace What Makes Kids Unique

These books for kids and teens celebrate the unique strengths and struggles of characters with physical, educational, or psychological differences.

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Read Around the World: 16 Books for Kids and Teens

Reading stories from other parts of the world is fun and helps kids appreciate other cultures. Go on a virtual vacation with these kids' books!

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20 Book Recommendations for Kids Who Loved Wonder

The best books profoundly change us. Like Wonder, these books push us toward greater empathy, compassion, and acceptance of differences.

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6 Kids' Books That Celebrate Military Families

For service members with young children, books can be a wonderful resource for navigating and normalizing all the emotions that go along with being a military family.

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Grown-Up Reads

10 Books To Help You Survive the First Year of Parenthood

These great parenting books can help you navigate the ups and downs of your first year as a parent, from sleep training and feeding your little one to finding time and energy for yourself.

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My Go-To Picture Books for Reading as a Family

Elyssa Friedland shares the five books that successfully entertain her three children, who span the ages of four to ten.

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Why Should Dads Read with Their Kids? I’m Glad You Asked …

The statement “It’s important for dads to read with their kids” sounds painfully obvious, but there's more to it than dads might think.

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