From fairy tales and galaxies far, far away to fantasy football and spooky fetes, our picks for July’s best books for young readers are sure to banish kids’ summer boredom. Here are nine titles to add to their bookshelves this month.
Kids never really outgrow fairy tales. After all, doesn’t everyone want to believe that something mystical exists, even if it’s only between the pages of a great book? Check out our picks for magical middle-grade series—including Chris Colfer’s Land of Stories books in which fairy-tale and classic storybook characters collide, the enchanting adventures of best […]
Fractured fairy tale fans know that happy endings are tricky things in the world of Soman Chainani’s School for Good and Evil trilogy, where the descendants of fairy tale heroes and villains compete to be the stars of their own tales, and where fresh stories spill out of an enchanted pen under the watchful eye […]
The occasional escape into a fantasy world is a crucial part of being a kid—and long-running series like the Spirit Animals, Wings of Fire, and Ranger’s Apprentice books introduce readers to characters and worlds they’ll come to know and love over the course of many chapters. Filled with everything from dragons and battles to Disney villains and fairy tale lore, […]