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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.

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. ...

Growing Up a Garbage Pail Kid

My earliest memory of accumulating enough capital to be able to go buy something on my own ended with a ...

“Book!” (First Word Bodes Well For a Life Full of Them)

Our daughter is nine-and-a-half (months, that is). And while she continues to fascinate me every day, she has not yet, ...

The Sweet Spot: Middle Grade Fiction

There’s no denying that one of the biggest and most prestigious literary awards for children’s books out there is the ...

Brand New Fairy Tales!

Fairy tales are Mythology for children. On the sometimes scary and always difficult path that leads to adulthood, Fairy tales ...

Reading Technologies: Creating an Interactive Book

Reading Technologies is a series about developments in digital reading and related technologies. Over the next several weeks, we’ll have ...

Is Snow White a Badass?

Unless you’re living under a pop-culture rock, you’re aware that the fairy tales are having a moment. On television, ABC’s ...

Falling Asleep to the Soft Glow of a Book

In honor of World Read Aloud Day, a story about bedtime stories. I am a psuedo-stepmom to a wonderful five ...

Wheels, Degrassi, and Why Tough YA Books and Libraries Are So Important

Neil Hope died about five years ago. Neil Hope played Wheels on the original Degrassi Junior High and High series. ...

The Kid Lit Creep Factor

So I was reading the bookselling news in Publishers Weekly and learned that the Curious George Bookstore, in Cambridge, Mass, ...