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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.

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, ...

The Roald Dahl Survival Guide For Kids

Only two books have been so good to demand insomnia of me until they were completed. One was The Great ...

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 ...