My Favorite Picture Books… Right Now
Looking for new picture books to read? Ariane has suggestions from her family’s current favorites!
Continue ReadingLooking for new picture books to read? Ariane has suggestions from her family’s current favorites!
Continue ReadingInteractive and silly, This Book Just Ate My Dog! will be a winner for a younger read aloud.
Continue ReadingIn Kid Sheriff and The Terrible Toads, a band of outlaws are terrorizing an old-west town with cow-kissin’, and chili insultin’. It’s up to Kid Sheriff, and his knowledge of dinosaurs to save the day!
Continue ReadingGetting your kids to eat right is the perennial challenge of being a parent, and now it’s been turned into a humorous not-for-kids children’s book.
Continue ReadingWith artwork that bounds off the page, The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Present: Macbeth is a clear but very silly take on one of the Bard’s most famous plays.
Continue ReadingCome check out a lost creature on Ben Hatke’s blog tour. GeekMom is hosting some leafy and literate trolls!
Continue ReadingMarissa Irvin Gould’s book teaches tennis terms and a little history of the sport.
Continue Reading“Maggie could always be geekier. I mean there are whole realms of Middle Earth she’s yet to explore,” says Megan Jean Sovern, author of “The Meaning of Maggie.”
Continue ReadingThe first day of school can be daunting, but what if you’re the littlest Valkyrie, just hoping to make a friend? Check out Edda: A Little Valkyrie’s First Day of School.
Continue ReadingOnce again, the GeekMoms have been reading an incredible variety of books this month. Hear about a drug-filled near-future dystopia, a mouse detective, the “lost journal” of Assassin’s Creed’s Blackbeard, and an academic introduction to the work of Joss Whedon.
Continue ReadingWalter Levin’s The Kid Who Went to the Moon fulfills every kid’s fantasy in more ways than one.
Continue ReadingThe final book in Zita the Spacegirl is out, and she’s unstoppable! (With the help of a lovable cast of friends, of course.)
Continue ReadingThis month’s Between the Bookends covers comical cats, Lemony Snicket causing despondency yet again, and a story of ordinary hardship in World War I.
Continue ReadingTove Jansson’s The Moomins have a been a book translated into 44 languages, a comic strip, a cartoon, a stop action animation, a 3D film, an opera, and a theme park. This year Jansson’s beloved Finland will commemorate her birth with a variety of events and releases.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Helen collates great books for younger independent readers for National Reading Month.
Continue ReadingBetween the Bookends returns for 2014 with ghosts in Malaysia, murder and intrigue in Westeros, and a whole lot of My Little Pony!
Continue ReadingThree recent kids’ books focus on fearless females, uniquely appealing to budding readers who are fans of Wonder Woman, Black Widow, and more.
Continue ReadingA recent study shows that kids who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better at spelling, vocabulary, and math than their peers who do not. A librarian discusses ways to cultivate young readers.
Continue ReadingAs a tea geek that loves to pass on my obsession with the young’uns in my life, I was excited to review Master Davey and The Magic Tea House: Legend of the Blue Tiger.
Continue ReadingSpeakaboos, the subscription-based website offering stories to promote reading skills in young children, has just launched a fun new iPad app with lots of interactive read-alongs.
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