Get Excited For Pi Day With 7 Books That Celebrate Math!
March 14th is Pi Day! It’s the day when math lovers rejoice over the perfection of numbers. A day when…
Picture Books
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with 15 Stories of Luck and Mischief!
If you dye your OJ green and don a double-breasted green velvet blazer (with coordinating shamrock cravat) when you lead…
10 New Picture Books About Rocks, Seeds, Soccer, and Everything in Between
Spring arrives just as surely in the pages of children’s books as it does outdoors. Check out these new stories…
5 Picture Books For Kids Who Can’t Get Enough of Transformers
Do you have a little one who loves Transformers? (Or, let’s be honest, are you a parent who used to…
11 Picture Books for Kids with March Birthdays
Every year brings the same question for parents of kids with March birthdays: do you risk it and plan an…
Me and My Non-Human BFF: 6 Picture Books Featuring Unlikely Friendships
There is nothing like a first best friend. This friend might be a classmate or a cousin or even a…
5 of the Best Books for Five Year Olds
Not quite babies anymore, not quite a big kids, five-year-olds are just getting ready to start reading. Five is an…
Celebrate Presidents’ Day with 5 Great Picture Books
It’s never too early to get children enthusiastic about democracy, or to encourage them to become leaders of the free…
6 Picture Books for Animal-Loving Fans of Wild Kratts
Some things never change, like my love of Chris and Martin Kratt. The hosts may have moved on from the…
7 Treasury Book Collections We Love
If you or your child has ever wished that story time would never end, a great way to keep it…
5 Picture Books That Will Make Your Silly Valentine LOL
Not everyone is a fan of the mushy Valentine’s Day picture book. Some prefer a sillier take on the holiday.…
6 Picture Books About Groundhog Day
It’s the second day of February, and you know what that means. Will it be six more weeks of winter,…
February’s Best New Picture Books
We have reached the icy depths of winter, and maybe storytime has gotten a little blah (like the slush piled…
6 Robot Picture Books That Will Give You All the Feels
Robots are supposed to be cold, emotionless, and logical. But the robots that appear in kids’ picture books display the…
7 Books for Talking to Kids About Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day always sneaks up on us. Another day off from school already?! While I’m busy thinking…
8 Ways Disgusting Critters Series Author Elise Gravel Makes Nonfiction Adorable
Elise Gravel is the author and illustrator of more than 20 books for kids. The world of colorful, cute characters…
7 Picture Books from Songs and Poems
Sometimes the gift of a picture book can be the best way to celebrate a special day or capture a…
5 Picture Books From Unexpected Points of View
Once upon a time, everyone in story land knew who was good and who was bad. Monsters: bad! Orphaned kids:…
5 Joyful Books for Kids with January Birthdays
Kids born in January can celebrate their birthdays with a sense of hope about what the new year will bring—and…
January’s Best Picture Books
While you might harbor mixed feelings on the subject, one thing is for sure: the December rush is behind us.…