#Children’s

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.

10 Classic Children’s and YA Books That Will Never Be Dated

This is a guest post by Jaime Herndon. Jaime is currently working on her thesis at Columbia University, where she will ...

Literary-Inspired Fashion Collections That Should Exist

If you’ve been following New York Fashion Week this year, you probably saw that Rodarte caused a stir by sending ...

Ground Rules for Writing Great Kids’ Books

I have two small boys, who are significantly less-small than they were seemingly an instant ago. One is six and ...

The Cat’s Meow: Books to Read to your Feline Friends

The best books to read to and about cats.

Never Stopped Doodling: An Interview with the Brothers Behind CRABTREE

This past year was the 15th anniversary of McSweeney’s, the publishing force that Slate called “the first bona fide literary ...

Book Lists for Every Type of Reader: A Roundup of “Bests”

Every January, librarians, educators, and other members of the American Library Association’s (ALA) various divisions gather to hash out a ...

The Biggest Snubs From This Year’s Caldecott Awards

First of all, I want to make one thing clear: this is NOT a criticism of the Caldecott committee. Narrowing ...

FIGHT CLUB and Other Inappropriate Children’s Books

BabyLit offers children's versions of ANNA KARENINA and JANE EYRE. Why stop there? Where are the board book editions of FIGHT CLUB and GAME OF THRONES?

Read (Them) This, Then That – Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust

Lately I’ve been noticing a serious upswing in the amount of graphic novels I’ve read that just so happen to ...

Kids Describe a World Without Libraries

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...