Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables Series #1)

I love celebrity cookbooks. How could I not? I love celebrities, I love food, and I love making fun of the weird things celebrities like to eat, so there’s absolutely no downside. The thing about a celebrity cookbook, though, is that they only work if the celebrity is really great and/or completely eccentric (and/or randomly […]

The classic meet-cute can be the best part of a love story, or the most cringe-worthy. The more awkward, quirky, or downright doomed the relationship seems from that first connection, the better the chance at true, happens-once-in-a-lifetime love—usually. At least in books. And while it may be a newish term, it has been happening for ages. […]

Many of YA’s classic protagonists are so established as to become almost archetypal: Holden Caulfield railing against the phonies, sunny Anne Shirley challenging everyone’s notions of an orphan girl’s fortitude, Brian with his trusty hatchet. But what if we swapped the genders on these characters? With some creative genderbending that we think William Shakespeare would be […]

When your kid loves reading, you’ll do almost anything to keep that fire burning—including reading them the same book over and over, right? I can not tell you how many times I’ve read Where the Wild Things Are in the last three weeks, but I can tell you this—I have that book memorized and can even tell […]