Inside: Relive history with these Medieval Times books for kids! Read about historical fiction during these times, from picture books to chapter books. Kids who like knights, princesses, and castles will like books set in Medieval Times. Adam Gidwitz writes in the back notes of The Inquisitor’s Tale: I hope, if nothing else, this book…
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Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
30 Children’s Books About Hawaii
Discover Hawaiian folk tales with these children’s books! Read about the legends and mythology of Hawaii and enjoy picture books to read with your child! When I was a child, a relative in Hawaii from my mother’s side whom I’d never met sent me two picture books as a Christmas present. It was a little…
31+ STEM Books to Inspire Girls
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday, which found that 15-year-old girls around the world, outperform boys in science – except for in the United States, Britain and Canada. via The Guardian Breaking down theNational Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores by gender, girls averaged 151 points (out of a possible 300), three points higher…
Back to School Picture Books
Is it time to get back into the swing of school? Hopefully, not just yet! We have a few more weeks of summer and I hope you do too. But, it’s a good time to talk about school starting to ease any anxieties. These five books do the trick. How about you? What are your…
60+ Filipino-American Children’s Books
Looking for books with Filipino characters? Learn about the Philippines with these Filipino American children’s books, including Tagalog words! Mika Song and Isabel Roxas have teamed up to come up with Filipino and Filipino-American Children’s books which are few and far between. I only know one picture book, Cora Makes Pancit by Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore, illustrated…
15 Great Middle Grade Books for Summer Reading
I’ve been “book tasting” or sampling two dozen or so middle grade chapter books to find books for my 12-year-old son. I’m also reading for myself, trying to discover that possible Newbery gem in these piles. From this list, I’m narrowing down my reading pile to: Lemons by Melissa Savage (getting buzz) A Boy Called…
18 Middle Grade Books for Summer Reading
I have a stack of middle-grade chapter books to review so I thought I would do a book tasting to screen them. It’s basically a perusal — check out the cover, the back cover, the flap summary for first impressions — then read the first few chapters, skip around the middle reading here and there,…