Pre-K
Growing Reader
Meet the Illustrator: Erin E. Stead
Caldecott Medal-winning Erin E. Stead's charming and wistful artwork in the The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles, a brand-new picture book about finding friendship in unexpected places, is enough to take any reader’s breath away.
Growing Reader
Tween
7 of the Best Books About Bullying, According to Kids
Tweens highly recommend these books as being both engaging and providing practical lessons on dealing with bullies in everyday life.
Tween
10 of the Best Books About the Great Depression for Tweens
These excellent books set during the Great Depression have lessons to impart to middle grade readers, along with rip-roaring tales to tell.
Grown-Up Reads
5 Books to Help You Raise Happy, Thoughtful Tweens and Teens
These five books offer great food for thought as well as practical tips for how to support tweens as they grow into independent, happy, and successful contributors to the world.
Just For Fun
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Patronus
I took the test. I clicked on answers as quickly as I could. I tried to give the answers that best reflected my inner self. And then... Wait, what?
Tips & Advice
I Read Banned Books and So Do My Kids
In most areas of my life, I’m a rule-follower, but when it comes to books, I’m a subversive.
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Delivering the Punch Line: The Sheer Delight of Reading Funny Books with Your Kids
When I don’t have the time or energy to be funny at home, I just take funny off the bookshelf. One of the best things about funny books is that they can be funny more than once!
Grown-Up Reads
3 Buzzed-About Books That Are Definitely Worth Your Time
In an attempt to save you precious time, we've scoured the new releases to pick out three new grown-up books worthy of your reading minutes.
Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
How Board Books Help Kids Develop Emotional Intelligence
Board books offer most young readers their first literary introductions to lessons in emotional intelligence — and these early lessons can last a lifetime!
Grown-Up Reads
Learning to Breathe Deep: Jewel on Never Broken, Motherhood, and Pursuing Happiness
We were thrilled to chat with the multi-talented star about her childhood in Alaska, how writing has served as a kind of therapy for her, readers’ responses to her memoir, and the kids' books her son adores.