5 Perfect Gift Picture Books for Three Year Olds
Everyone know that picture books and three year olds go together like peanut butter and jelly! Here are five perfect…
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5 Picture Books for Kids Worried About Switching Schools
Starting over at a brand new school can be really difficult for anyone, but it is especially hard for young…
8 Picture Books That Will Spark Creativity in Little Readers
Finding your creative spark can be challenging for an adult and it may be even harder for your little reader;…
8 Great Middle Grade Coming of Age Novels
It can be really hard navigating the ups and down of growing up, especially when you are in the “tween”…
A Creepy Mansion, a Baseball Prodigy, and a Girl Struck By Lightning: 10 Terrific New Middle Grade Books Perfect for Summer Reading!
Summer means it’s time for shorts, sand, sun, and of course really good books! From creepy mysteries and missing parents…
A Dinosaur Eats Her Classmates, Two Kittens Trade Places, and a Giraffe Moves to a New Town: 11 More Summer Picture Books We Love
If your youngest reader loves engaging illustrations and delightful stories, they’re in luck: all of these (and more) can be…
Discover the Weird and Wondrous Books of Holes Author Louis Sachar!
Sachar was born in 1954 and attended University of California, Berkeley. While in college, he volunteered at an elementary school, an…
5 Awesome Graphic Novels for Middle Graders!
A really good graphic novel has everything you want in a book. Amazing storyline? Check. Smart dialogue and interesting characters?…
5 Books to Teach Kids About Coding
Coding is kind of a big deal! After all, if you are reading this, it’s because coding was used to…
Magnifique! 5 Inspiring Children’s Books about Artists and Musicians!
It is never too early (or too late) to bring art and music into a child’s life. And these five…
5 Beautiful Indigenous and Native American Picture Books to Add to Your Child’s Library
Beautifully illustrated or filled with vibrant and intimate photography that spans a wide range of cultures and experiences, these five…
5 Ways to Keep Your New Year’s Reading Resolutions
Now that 2017 is underway, it’s time for us to examine those resolutions we made so cavalierly at midnight on New…
5 Great Middle Grade Books About Adventure on the High Seas!
The smell of salt on the air, the feel of wood planks under your feet as shimmering white sails flap…
The Battle of Hackham Heath Continues an Epic Ranger’s Apprentice Prequel Series
Before we can discuss why The Battle of Hackam Heath is so amazing (and it really is!), we have to take a…
5 Books About Delightfully Precocious Kids
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “precocious” as “having or showing the qualities or abilities of an adult at an unusually early age.”…
Kenneth C. Davis’s In the Shadow of Liberty Explores the Lives of Men and Women Enslaved by Our Founding Fathers
In his new book, In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives author Kenneth C.…
A 5-Book Guide to Surviving Middle School
I was an awkward kid in middle school; tall and gangly with big glasses and the finely honed ability to…
Fans of Adventure Fantasy will Love Joshua Khan’s Shadow Magic
I am kind of angry at Shadow Magic author, Joshua Khan. If I ran into the acclaimed author on the…
