Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
Looking for basketball books for kids to read? Check out the best selections of this amazing sport, both fiction and nonfiction. This basketball post was inspired by the Harlem Globetrotters video that I watched on The Kid Should See This. It’s a wonderful combination of Stomp and the Globetrotters. Then I learned of the sad…
Congratulations to Elissa Brent Weissman and Omer Hoffmann, the author and illustrator of Hanukkah Upside Down, for being a Sidney Taylor Book Award Honoree in the picture book category! Let’s learn more about their book, how they celebrated, and more! Hanukkah Upside Down: Interviewing the Sydney Taylor Book Award Picture Book Honorees! Hannukkah Upside…
I don’t know a lot about Southeast Asian American children’s literature so this was fun list to research and it was fun to hunt down books I had heard about but haven’t read in a while as well as discover a few really great authors that are new to me. I asked a Mom Friend at a birthday party — we were both waiting in the car for 2+ hours while our kids jumped on gigantic trampolines — since she’s East Asian what East Asian KidLit was in her bookshelves. She said there wasn’t a lot available and it’s true.
Space… the final frontier. I’ll admit that Star Trek got me really into space travel and thinking about what lies beyond our own solar system. These days when we think of earlier times when the predominant belief was that the earth was flat, we think this is such a naive perspective. We also thought the…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. My mother is a breast cancer survivor so this is a topic dear to my heart. I’ve gathered up books for kids and teens about cancer. What am I missing? Thanks for your help! 32 Books About Cancer For Kids and Teens Henry and the White Wolf by Tyler…
You might recognize Furqan from our Multicultural Children’s Book Day poster! Robert Liu-Trujillo created the artwork for our event. When Rob gave us sketches for the poster, we didn’t know the boy in the flat top was a character in his book; he just appealed to us and we picked him right away! I’m thrilled…
Here’s our favorite dinosaur books both stories and non-fiction.