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Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice

Beyond the Naughty and Nice List: Keeping Kids on Their Best Behavior At the Holidays and All Year Round

Authors John and Karen Miller want to help moms and dads parent through the holidays and forever more not with threats, gimmicks, and manipulative tricks, but by teaching kids to take accountability for their behavior. Here are their tips.

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Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader

The Mom Who Wants Her Kids to Fall Asleep: One Family Takes the Bestselling Sleep Book for a Test Run

A mom of pre-K twins shares what happened when she tried reading the bestselling The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep with her kids at bedtime.

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Tips & Advice

5 Small But Important Life Lessons from Together Is Better to Share with Your Kids

Simon Sinek's new picture book, Together Is Better, may be written for adults, but it contains valuable life lessons that make it a great read-aloud for young kids.

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Growing Reader
Tween

7of My Bad Habits — And Why I’m Amazed I Wrote a Book At All

Iva-Marie Palmer reveals the cover of her new middle grade novel, Gabby Garcia's Ultimate Playbook, which she started while pregnant with her second son and and eventually finished writing despite some (oh-so-relateable) bad habits.

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Grown-Up Reads

Reflections on Faith and Art: Madeleine L’Engle’s Search for Solace in Storytelling

Charlotte Jones Voiklis, granddaughter of Madeleine L'Engle, explores how writing the beloved A Wrinkle in Time helped L'Engle reconcile the pain and suffering in the world with her faith in a loving creator.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween

My Path to Peter: Andrea Davis Pinkney on Bringing Ezra Jack Keats and The Snowy Day to Life

I was born in the inner city in 1963, the same year Ezra Jack Keats won the Caldecott medal for The Snowy Day. I’m thankful I came into this world with that book to greet me.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader

Bookshelf Must-Have: Me: A Compendium

From the creative geniuses at Wee Society comes Me: A Compendium, a colorful and whimsical write-in journal designed to show off what makes every child unique.

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Just For Fun

18 Authors on the Wackiest Gifts They Received as Kids

To get in the spirit of the holidays, we asked authors to share the wildest gifts they remember receiving as children, and their entertaining answers are as unique as the books they pen.

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All Ages

2016’s Most Memorable Moments in Children’s and YA Literature

2016 gave us diversity, history, and quite a bit of fun. See what you think of our choices for the most unforgettable moments in the kids' book world from the past year and be sure to let us know what we missed!

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Growing Reader
Tween

5 Favorite Female Sleuths from Middle Grade Mystery Books

I love middle grade mysteries and capers — they are the reason I fell in love with books. To celebrate the genre, and the lovely leading ladies within it, here are five of the most fantastic female sleuths in tween reads.