Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
Encourage empathy among kids by reading these children’s books about names! Inspirational stories to share the meaning and importance of names. Each of my three children has a middle name that reflects part of their Korean/Japanese/Chinese ethnicity. My daughters have Japanese names — Keiko and Miyako; my son’s middle name, Gyung-Won, is the name of…
What does it mean to children to discover the world around them? I’m taking the view that it’s a full-body experience from bathing to world religion to the natural world. The commonality: discovering children from around the world and finding similarities. If your kids want to take this path of discovery, I’m jump-starting this by…
Please welcome author Carol Gordon Ekster today! She’s no stranger to bedtime stories, having written a few of her own. She shares her list of favorite diversity bedtime books and we are giving away a copy of her newest book, You Know What? Please use the Rafflecopter at the bottom to enter. You Know What?…
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. A Newbery Book Should Have Broad Age Appeal There’s nothing worse, in my mind than a…
Please welcome author Mark Maciejewski with a book list on how to get boys reading, even reluctant ones. His answer? Humor! It works! He wrote a hilarious book about a bald, middle school outcast and we are giving away three signed copies! I Am Farticus by Mark Jaciejewski Chub is a short, accidentally bald, middle…
If you haven’t been following Here Wee Read‘s Bookstagram Choice Awards, she’s rounded up 20+ bloggers, each of whom has selected a single book to award. The books are on the Instagram account, @bookstagramchoiceawards, with one blogger posting per day and two bonus bloggers: 11/27 – @afriendlyaffair 11/28 – @andy.plemmons 11/29 – @biracialbookworms 11/30 –…
Last year, I speculated on the criteria that I think makes a picture book a Caldecott winner and I did pretty well predicting the winners with four of the five! This is what I wrote last year: Caldecott Picture Books Should Appeal to a Wide Audience The Caldecott is determined by adults, first and foremost, so…