Alya Hameed

Holiday traditions can be extremely fun to come up with even if you don't celebrate the holidays themselves. Here are bookish ways to spend the holidays.

When I began to instill a love for reading in my child, I did not consider the consequences of having a baby who wants to read all the time.

When you want to enjoy the chilling Halloween season without the zombies, bloody murders, or fright fests, try one of these spooky books for October.

YA authors are pledging to take 28 days of action to get involved in the midterm elections that affect them, therefore motivating fans to do the same.

Why do we delight so much in the food descriptions in books? For this author, it's about the connection between culture, identity, and home.

I've been looking back on the last twelve months to figure out how exactly I managed to read anything at all. Somehow I have managed to eke in some personal time with just me and a book. Or what passes for personal time now, since the baby is almost always hanging around (or off of) me. Consequently, I had to come up with some curious methods for reading.

Here's a short list of moments when Harry Potter was a Slytherin--or rather, behaved like the Slytherin that he could have been.

What if reading were actually dangerous? Here is a list of dangerous books within books that would really be hazardous to the reader's health.

Prepare the kid in your life to confront obstacles, and to be aware of social issues, with these children's books about activism.

The lessons that a book lover can learn from a minimalist about maintaining book collections, and vice versa.

A roundup of some excellent middle grade books about the immigrant experience, highlighting immigrant stories, for middle school readers (and beyond).

It's Ramadan, Curious George, is the perfect first book to give your children to teach them about Ramadan!