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Baby & Toddler

7 Books on Bravery for Babies & Toddlers

These seven books showcase a variety of ways real-life people, pets, and characters demonstrate bravery in everyday life. 

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Pre-K
Growing Reader

Tips for Setting Up Your Classroom Library for Success

Setting up a classroom library with an appealing and user-friendly collection of books goes a long way towards helping kids enjoy reading. These tips can help set you up for success.

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Pre-K

11 Books About Bravery for Kids Ages 3 – 5

The stories on this list are full of brave characters — from bears to superheroes to spunky preschool kids themselves — perfect for showing 3- to 5-year-olds that bravery comes in all shapes and sizes.

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Growing Reader

Books on Bravery for Kids Ages 6 – 8

These 10 stories will inspire and encourage kids to be brave.

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Tween

12 Middle Grade Books That Celebrate Bravery

These 12 kid-approved stories with brave and heroic characters span genres — including contemporary fiction, historical fiction, adventure, and nonfiction.

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Teen

11 YA Books on Courage and Bravery

Being brave can be as simple as being who you really are – which, perhaps not surprisingly, is a common theme in some of today’s best YA.

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Pre-K

Vanessa Roeder’s The Box Turtle Is the Lesson in Resilience We All Need

A lesson in resilience, The Box Turtle is a great example for little readers to look to when their confidence is a little shaky.

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Growing Reader

Brightly Storytime: Vlad the Rad

We're gearing up for Halloween with a special reading of Vlad the Rad, a totally awesome picture book sure to delight your little ghosts and goblins.

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Pre-K
Growing Reader

Spanish/English Bilingual Printables and Activities

For kids growing up in a bilingual or Spanish-speaking household, or those looking to learn a second language, these Spanish/English bilingual printables and activities are great fun!

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Grown-Up Reads

The Best Grown-Up Reads of September 2020

Whether it’s a love story, family novel, or parenting advice you seek, September’s best new reads for grownups has a book to bring you peace (several hundred pages worth!).