I’m excited to be judging first-round Cybils this year in the categories of Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books. There were over 50 entrants for Early Chapter Books this year, and we just finished picking the shortlist. Now, round 2 judges will take over to pick the final winners — 1 in each category! There…
Graphic novels are my secret weapon to get any kid reading. My recent discovery is that there are also multicultural, diverse, and inclusive graphic novels that bring kids into different perspectives like what it’s like to have hearing loss or go through a civil war. Graphic novels also let us experience new worlds, both present,…
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…
My second reader review from Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime! has come in! Dr. Cara Byrne @cararosebyrne Z loved reading @pragmaticmom’s silly and fun Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime, which we received as part of Multicultural Book Day 2024 #ReadYourWorld @MCChildsBookDay This is a review for my Kickstarter book, Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female…
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…
Thank you to Heidi Rabinowitz of The Book of Life Podcast for creating this book list for me to cover. She noticed that my Best #OwnVoices Children’s Books had Jewish books about the Holocaust, but not in modern times. I didn’t know how to identify Jewish authors, as there isn’t a group blog or database of…