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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.

Five Books to Watch For in September

September is jam-packed with a lot of great new releases — it’s a nice send-off to summer and a welcome ...

Middle Grade Madness [Bracketology]

This is a guest post by Teddy Steinkellner. He is the debut author of Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga, ...

Mail Call: Kid Lit Stamps From Around the World

Earlier this summer, Canada Post honored Stella — the title character of a series of picture books by author Marie-Louise ...

50 Books to Read Before You’re 11 3/4: Book Riot’s Twenty-Five

I’m just back from six weeks in the UK, where the amazing National Trust has an advertising campaign on the ...

Marketing Books To Girls

I say to my daughter, 6, trying to entice her toward literature and away from glitter in the book store, ...

New Cover for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS Revealed

Over the last few months, Scholastic has revealed the new cover art for everyone’s favorite boy wizard. Here’s the final installment ...

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 ...