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Favorite Roald Dahl Book
Growing Reader
Tween

Why The BFG Is My Daughter’s Favorite Roald Dahl Book

The BFG is not Dahl’s most famous work, so why does my kid treasure it above all of his other books? It all comes down to this universal feeling.

Get-Most-Out-Of-Summer
Tips & Advice

5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Summer

If we let it, summer can easily pass us by in a whirlwind. Here are five ideas to help you make the most of summertime with your family.

2016 Summer Books Preview
Pre-K
Growing Reader
Tween

The Best Children’s Books of Summer 2016

Kick off the summer book season with one of these hot new picture book and chapter book releases!

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Baby & Toddler
Pre-K

Meet the Illustrator: Juana Medina

Little kids will love 1 Big Salad: A Delicious Counting Book, Juana Medina's picture book featuring vegetables transformed into adorably expressive animals.

Curb-My-Parental-Expectations
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice

How I Learned to Curb My Parental Expectations and Love the Boy I Got

Here are five common expectations about raising children that I frequently heard from parents, things many of us think we want for our kids, and the realities of each.

My BFG
Growing Reader
Tween

My BFG: A Special Note from Roald Dahl's Daughter

Lucy Dahl opens a window into her childhood as the daughter of creative genius Roald Dahl and shares how the BFG took shape in the nightly bedtime stories he told.

Author James Campbell with his daughters
Grown-Up Reads

5 Things I Never Expected to Love About Being a Dad

I always imagined that I would have a son — but, instead of sons, I had three daughters. And from the time they came into the world, bright pink and bawling, I never looked back, not even for a moment.

Easy ways to add fun to your family's everyday
Tips & Advice

All Work and No Play? Easy Ways to Add More Fun to the Everyday

It turns out fun is not folly — it’s actually the rich stuff that holds us all together. As the old saying goes: Families who play together, stay together.

Brightly&#8217;s Book Club for Kids: <i>The BFG</i> Thumbnail
Growing Reader
Tween

Brightly’s Book Club for Kids: The BFG

This month’s Family Book Club pick is big — and we mean big! The BFG, by Roald Dahl, is huge on charm, laughs, suspense, and heart.

musical-adaptations
Growing Reader
Tween

Broadway Musicals by the Book: 5 Children’s and YA Stories Adapted to (and from) the Stage

These stories have inspired stage adaptations and are perfect to read as a family before listening to the soundtrack and (if you're lucky) seeing them onstage.