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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.

Writing in the Margins: Books Before and After I Read Them

Though I would like you to lend me a book I am not the kind of person you should lend ...

Growing Up With: Tattoos

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

Growing Up With(out): The Fourth Wall

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

#KidLit Classics: Bunnicula the Vampire Bunny

Bunnicula the vampire rabbit for kids.

Growing Up With: Robots

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

Why I’m a Terrible Librarian

 This is a guess post by Rita Meade. Rita is a librarian who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She blogs ...

A Lesson About Imaginary Places from Maurice Sendak

I started Kindergarten in the fall of 1985. I was in Miss Clarke’s class, and one of my most vivid ...

It All Starts with Reading From Birth.

This is a guest post from Earl Martin Phalen, the CEO of Reach Out and Read. Book Riot donates 2% ...

Russell Hoban’s Frances the Badger

Russell Hoban’s “Frances The Badger” #kidlit series was a staple of my childhood. My mom read Bedtime for Frances to ...

In Honor of Beverly Cleary’s 96th Birthday

Most bookish women I know lay alms at the altar of Judy Blume, with good reason. I too love Judy. ...