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Whether you’re looking for kid’s books online to read to your small humans or because you’re young at heart, we’ve got the best kid lit recommendations! Our kid’s books post cover everything from children’s picture books to chapter books for kids to middle grade fiction recommendations.

Of Mice and Pen: Some of the Bravest Squeakers in Literature

This month, Archaia released Mouse Guard: The Black Axe, the latest hardcover collection of David Petersen’s Mouse Guard. I’ve been waiting ...

RUNAWAY BUNNY starring Liam Neeson

Credit for this mashup goes to reader Kyle Behymer who left this comment on a previous post: Whenever I read ...

5 Wilderness Novels for Your Junior Thoreau

I was eight when I first went away to a rustic girls’ camp in Maine. An enthusiastic tomboy with a ...

A Reading List Fit for a Royal Baby

Welcome, royal baby! Go on, take a breath, enjoy this new world you’ve entered before you learn what it means ...

Best Children’s Book Stores in The US?

Good independent children’s book stores are hard to come by. At best, suburban parents can stumble into an assortment of ...

Summer Reading: Early Chapter Books

Middle schools and high schools are piling on the summer reading right now, but — at least in my neighborhood ...

An Open Letter to Roald Dahl

This is a guest post by our current Rioter in Residence, Sean Ferrell. Sean’s novels include Man in the Empty Suitfrom Soho Press ...

Coloring Outside the Lines: The Diversity Gap in Children’s Literature

Lee & Low Books is a children’s book publisher that specializes in multicultural literature. Since 1991, they have been tracking ...

A Guide to Neil Gaiman for Kids!

This post is part of our Neil Gaiman Reading Day: a celebration of one of our favorite authors on the occasion of the publication ...

“Get Me Neil on the Line”: A Peek at Neil Gaiman’s Friendship with Tori Amos

This post is part of our Neil Gaiman Reading Day: a celebration of one of our favorite authors on the occasion of the publication ...