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Growing Reader

6 Easy Ways To Get Outside and Read This Summer

If your kids groan at the idea of spending their summer days with their nose in a book, these ideas will inspire them (and you!) to get outside and read.

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Tips & Advice

4 Ways to Help Grandparents Start Their Own Reading Traditions with Their Grandkids

If your kid is lucky enough to have grandparents in their life, how do you encourage them to start their own reading traditions? Here's how to get started.

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Meet the Illustrator: David Ezra Stein

In today’s Meet the Illustrator feature we hear from David Ezra Stein, award-winning author and illustrator of the delightful Interrupting Chicken and recently released Tad and Dad.

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Baby & Toddler
Pre-K
Growing Reader

11 Adorable Kids’ Lit-Inspired Birthday Parties

These kids’ lit-inspired birthday parties are so clever and creative. The hardest part of party planning may be choosing just one book!

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Time-Travel with Your Tween in These 6 Books of Historical (a.k.a. Pre-Wi-Fi) Fiction

There is a trove of amazing books of historical fiction that bring eras, events, and people to life in vibrant color for you and your tween to enjoy.

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Grown-Up Reads

Tanned and Tome’d: This Summer’s Must-Read Books

Here are nine mysterious, romantic, thrilling books, mostly new to the shelves, to fill your reading fancy this summer.

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Growing Reader
Tween

It’s a Big, Big World: Great Travel Writing for Kids

Share one of these rare gems of kid-focused travel writing with your children and watch as they slowly begin to grasp the awesome power of wanderlust.

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Growing Reader
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5 Completely Insane Books You Should Read with Your Kid

Here are some of my favorite books for young readers where science and fantasy lose their minds and the odd and outlandish soar to weird new heights.

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Tips & Advice

Reading at Home: 8 Things Your Kid’s Teacher Wishes You Would Do

I’ve asked my son’s teachers what we can do to encourage and support his reading. Here are a few tips and requests I’ve gotten from teachers along the way.

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Growing Reader
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Brightly’s Summer Reading Fun Packs (2015)

From summer reading lists to learning games, printable activities, and road trip listens, find everything you need to make this a fun-filled, book-filled summer.