Friendship
Teen
7 Heart-Mending YA Books to Get You Through a Break-Up
Break-ups are inevitable, but these young adult novels are a good place to start nursing a broken heart.
Pre-K
10 Books for the Young Artiste
Perfect for budding artists, these ten kids' books celebrate art of all kinds — whether it’s hanging on the wall of a museum or created with a broken crayon.
Teen
16 of the Most Exciting YA Books to Read in 2016
For teen readers (and wannabe-kids at heart), 2016 offers exciting new young adult books from beloved authors and debuts destined to create lifelong fans.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
16 Awesome Picture Books to Read in 2016
Filled with funny, whimsical, and clever stories, these sixteen picture books are some of the most promising releases for 2016.
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.
Tween
12 Books About Friendship for Middle Grade Readers
One of the biggest challenges of parenting is figuring out how to help your child learn how to navigate sticky social situations. A good book, at the right time, can help.
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.
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.
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.
Just For Fun
We Go Together: The Greatest Duos in Children’s Literature
Children’s literature contains some of the most memorable duos — sometimes friends, sometimes enemies, but always inseparable in our minds and our hearts.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
7 Books to Help Build Young Brains
Our friends at The New York Public Library share some newly released picture books perfect for kids’ parietal-temporal-occipital association cortexes.
Tween
10 Classics for Kids (That They’ll Actually Enjoy Reading)
The eleven classics listed here all share an important characteristic: they’re interesting to real readers!
