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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.

Parenting For Real: A Few Reading Recommendations

Laundry: The Home Comforts of Caring for Clothes & Linens by Cheryl Mendelson (Might as well do it right since ...

Why Read Kid Lit: Maurice Sendak’s IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN

I like Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, and his newest Bumble-Ardy about giving a pig a party, but ...

Children’s Valentine’s Books, Sparkly and Saccharine to Sweet

What’s going on now for children at the bookstore? Pink. Pink. And more pink. Take Victoria Kann’s best selling oeuvre: ...

Refreshing Children’s Books for Grown-Ups

One of the unexpected side effects of becoming a parent was that I ended up with 13,423 copies of Goodnight ...

Retro “Christmas Chiller” Throwdown: Baby-sitters’ Club vs Sweet Valley Twins

When I was a tween, the most important books being published were Ann M. Martin’s Baby-sitters Club series and Francine Pascal’s ...

Gateway Books: Do You Remember Your First Time?

Forget your Hobbits, Harry Potters, Nancy Drews, or Lions, Witches and Wardrobes. The book that convinced my eight-year-old self that ...

Life Lessons from Anne

… Anne of Green Gables, that is. First published in 1908, Anne of Green Gables (and the rest of the nine ...