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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.

Jaqueline Kelly’s RETURN TO THE WILLOWS, Best #KidLit of 2012

Jacqueline Kelly, author of the wonderful, historical young adult novel The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, has absolutely knocked my socks ...

Book Riot’s Best Books of 2012

Editor’s note: We challenged our contributors to choose their top 2 books of 2012. Some were sassy and only picked one, others ...

Happy Birthday, C.S. Lewis!

Today is the birthday of classic fantasy author C.S. Lewis, born in 1898. He gave us The Chronicles of Narnia, ...

Growing Up with Kick-Ass Sequels

What is true of the movies is also true of books: sometimes, the sequel is even better than the original. ...

Growing Up With Sick Days

In Growing Up With …, Jenn features picture books, middle reader, and teen books linked together by concept or theme. ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Week’s Most Watched Trailers – November 3-9, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!  

5 Halloween Books for Little Kids

The internet has no shortage of book lists for you to read for Halloween (Dracula again, anyone?), but what about ...

Growing Up With Ghosts

Ghosts were my original introduction to things-that-goes-bump-in-the-night, and my first taste of the horror genre. I’m not sure what was ...

A Reading List for Little Monsters

It’s Halloween season. It’s October Country. It’s that perfect, wonderful time of the year when we live in the chilly, ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Trailers – October 20-26, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!