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Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice

4 Keys to Resolving Conflict with Your Kid

Every parent and child fights — and these guidelines from negotiation expert Dr. Shapiro can help moms and dads resolve conflicts with kids of all ages.

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Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader

How Story Helped My Family Through Trauma

Every so often, despite the perfect ultrasounds, easy pregnancy, and crazy research that has ensured your delivery and baby and life with a newborn will go off without a hitch, things happen that are totally outside any realm of possibility you’ve ever imagined.

Family Book Club
Growing Reader
Tween

Brightly’s Book Club for Kids: Pax

Destined to be a classic, Pax highlights the special bond between a child and pet, and the lengths the two will go to reunite after they are separated. We dare you not to fall in love with this fox and his boy.

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Grown-Up Reads

Over the River and Through the Woods: Lesley Stahl on Becoming Grandma

Becoming a gran exhilarated me with a new purpose. The change was so big and granular and unexpected, I wanted to understand it. So I took out my reporter’s notepad and a tape recorder and set off on a journey, a quest, to find out what was happening to me.

From Mother to Daughter: Passing Reading Memories Forward
Grown-Up Reads
Tips & Advice

From Mother to Daughter: Passing Reading Memories Forward

As I began to read, the smell of the books and the words of the poem truly made me teary. I could remember my mom reading it to me. I could remember each and every line after all these years.

Favorite Bits of Mom Wisdom
Just For Fun
Tips & Advice

9 Bits of Mom Wisdom Shared by Brightly Readers

We asked Brightly readers to share the best bits of wisdom passed down to them by their moms. These were some of the best answers we heard.

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Baby & Toddler
Pre-K

How to Throw a Make Way for Ducklings Party

Make way! Ducklings — er, we mean birthday kid coming through! Check out our fun book-themed ideas — from treats and décor to crafts and games.

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Growing Reader
Tween

Meet the Illustrator: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

When Jarrett J. Krosoczka isn't thinking up hilarious plot twists in his Lunch Lady graphic novel series, he writes and illustrates a variety of picture and middle grade books, and hosts “The Book Report with JJK."

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Pre-K
Growing Reader

7 Picture Books for Children Moving to a New Home

A few picture books go a long way to opening a discussion and helping children know what to expect before the big moving day.

The Books the Thing
All Ages

The Book’s the Thing: Shakespeare for Kids of All Ages

Books inspired by the Bard! These fun retellings can help make Shakespeare accessible and entertaining to kids and young adults.