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#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.

Movie-To-Book Recommendation Engine: The Harry Potter Series (Young Adult Edition)

I know. I know. I can hear you now: “Hey Turkey! The Harry Potter films are just adaptations of more ...

Growing Up With The Force

I can clearly remember the first time I saw a Star Wars movie, and I bet you can too. We ...

Happy Birthday, R.L. Stine!

Today is the birthday of R.L. Stine, author of the Fear Street and Goosebumps kids books on which many of ...

Everything I Need to Know about Teaching Literature I Learned from Winnie-the-Pooh

I’ve been a full-time college instructor of composition and literature for just over two years now, and in that time ...

A Director’s Cut of HARRY POTTER? No, Thanks.

JK Rowling has revealed she toys with the idea of doing a director’s cut of the Harry Potter books. Let me be among the first to warn her off.

Growing Up With Dragons

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

THE BOOK RIOT 50: #27 Growing Up With Robots

To celebrate Book Riot’s  first birthday on Monday, we’re running our best 50 posts from our first year this week. ...

Fresh Ink: New Books Out September 25, 2012

It seems things have quieted down a bit in the aftermath of the New Book Avalanche of early September. But ...

Growing Up With: Aliens

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

Charlotte’s Web: Radiant, Terrific, Some Book

Charlotte’s Web is a great book, in the pantheon with George Eliot’s Middlemarch, books that make me feel kinship with ...