The Well-Read Child

The Fairy Tale Detectives is the first book in Michael Buckley's "The Sister's Grimm" series. I've been meaning to r...

Happy Saturday everyone! Please enjoy the August Carnival of Children's Literature hosted at In Need of Chocolate . Sarah brings us a ba...

Wow...it's hard to believe the summer is almost over. Our reading routine has definitely been inconsistent throughout the summer because...

Taking care of the Earth, reusing, and recycling is very important to me, and today you see a lot of books, cartoons, commercials, and toys ...

This interactive "pull-the-ribbon" book has been one of my daughter's favorite books since I bought it for her over a year ago...

As many families in the U.S. are already back to school or getting ready to go back to school in a couple of weeks, this week I'd like f...

On August 25, Babymouse is back, and this time it's up to a hero on her school's Mathletes team to win back the coveted Golden Slide...

I don't know why seeing children's book reviews in major publications like The New York Times thrills me, but it always does. This ...

Welcome to this week's edition of "What My Children Are Reading." This week we've been on a "staycation" and hav...

Pam, a.k.a. MotherReader, has officially announced that it's time to sign up for this year's Kidlitosphere Conference that will be ...

In May, I reviewed Maggie Stiefvater's newest YA novel, Shiver , the love story of Grace and Sam, a girl and a werewolf. Here's what...

I've been a fan of Lita Judge's since reading her book One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II , the beautiful st...

I took a couple of weeks off from blogging, but that doesn't mean that I stopped reading with my daughter. Over the past couple of weeks...

There are about a gazillion alphabet books out there. In fact, a recent post at Editorial Anonymous titled " Death by Alphabet Books ...

Thanks to everyone who entered to win Scholastic 's Harry Potter Paperback Prize Pack giveaway. These five lucky winners will receive: *...

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan Imagine living in a world where you constantly hear the moans of zombies, the Unconsecrated, w...

Welcome to another week of What My Children Are Reading. I apologize for missing last week. It was one of those weeks, but this week I'd...

Just a reminder that my contest to win paperback copies of books 5, 6, and 7 in the Harry Potter series ends July 10th. Visit this post to ...

Chee-Lin: A Giraffe's Journey by James Rumford Review by Erica Moore Eighty years before Columbus sailed to the Americas the Chinese se...

Afghan Dreams: Young Voices of Afghanistan by Mike Sullivan and Tony O’Brien Review by Lisa Stanger Photo-Journalist Tony O’Brien and filmm...