Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
In honor of Banned Book Week, let’s read a book on the list! 10 Books to Read for Banned Book Week Information on why the book is banned or challenged is excerpted from The Daily Beast. 1. TTYL series by Lauren Myracle The first book in the series, “TTYL,” was banned from a town in Texas…
I started haunting our local bookstore to read picture books but I always feel guilty using it like a library so I make sure to buy a small stack. When it comes to picture books, I am the pickiest purchaser ever because I am buying for myself! The Dark made my purchase pile. I had…
Grasshopper and Sensei and PickyKidPix both discovered Roald Dahl in third grade. I think it was the first chapter book author they really fell in love with. Now that my youngest is in third grade, I hope that the magic of Roald Dahl happens again for him and his class. In honor of Roald Dahl…
If you have ever been to Boston (and everyone should go there at least once), you will know that as a city it is a bewildering mixture of modern improvements and the relics of antiquity, and it is interesting, for example, to come out from buying plastic clothespins and chocolate-strawberry-marshmallow-banana splits in a department store…
We are lucky to have farms in our suburban town as well as nearby but these local farms have morphed into U Pick or teaching centers. I guess I’ve always fantasized about living on a farm. Self-sufficiency and all that. I only know one person who grew up on a farm. His friends say that…
I’m excited to be participating in the Kid Lit Giveaway Hop again! Mother Daughter Book Reviews and Youth Literature Reviews are again the hosts — the last one was in May — and we think it’s a great way to start the school year off with each of us giving away children’s books! We hope it will get kids…
Are you reading ebooks with your kids this summer? I find that my son likes to read both paper and ebooks. Sometimes when I’m trying to get something done, an eBook that reads to him is a big convenience. But we are picky readers. A free eBook is only good for us if it’s a…