Who said picture books have to be all about bunnies, TV characters, and magical forests? Channel your inner cool parent spirit and pick up something a little edgier, more modern, and certainly to your taste. These tales feature hip characters, modern aesthetics, art, tattoos, technology (and one book is strictly for parents only). Your little one will love […]
“The days are long, but the years are short” is possibly the most honest phrase ever said about parenting. Becoming a parent is one of the best, hardest, most wonderful, and most trying jobs there is. To help get through the long days, the short years, and the temper tantrums in between, during your next story time, […]
Coming up with the title to a work is hard (except for New York Post headline writers), which makes for a convenient loophole in copyright law: Titles can’t be copyrighted. So, yes, there can be a Hemingway book titled For Whom the Bell Tolls (the title itself is an allusion to a John Donne poem), […]
Maybe children’s books aren’t just books geared at children because of their simple sentences, slow pacing, heavy descriptions, and limited vocabulary. Maybe “children’s” is just a style of book with its own tropes and rules, like romance or science-fiction. Maybe that means children’s books can be for adults, too. Here are some books that, like […]