The Well-Read Child

Tomorrow, nominations for the 2009 Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards open up and will remain open until October ...

ATTENTION: This contest is now closed. Thank you for your entries!    Today I'm excited to be offering a huge prize pack in celebrat...

I'd like to offer a BIG THANKS to those of you who've signed up to host a Thursday in the coming weeks. There are still some Novembe...

Banned Books Week kicks off this Saturday, 9/26/09, and already there are some great posts talking about banned books and the importance of...

If you're going to be in the DC area next weekend or want to make a road trip, please check out the National Book Festival. It's fre...

Catching Fire is the sequel to The Hunger Games , and it truly is the book I’ve been most anticipating to read this year.It starts off a li...

Time for the latest edition of "What My Children Are Reading!" Here is what my little daughter and I have been reading recently. ...

On October 1, nominations for this year's Children's and Young Adult Blogger Literary awards (Cybils) will open up. Check out the C...

There simply aren't enough children's books that feature interracial characters, so I did a little happy dance when this one arrived...

I've been a bit uninspired by some of the books I've recently read and haven't found any review worthy. I hope to be back soon w...

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 ...