The Well-Read Child

Last Fall, I read and reviewed Sally M. Walker's Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland.  This is a book abou...

Today marks the beginning of this year's Banned Books Week. I stopped questioning why others decide to challenge and ban books. It makes...

I finally had some time to read over the weekend and finished Mockingjay , THE most highly-anticipated book of the year for me. This is more...

I haven't updated the slideshow of kids reading on my blog for a while now. If you'd like me to post a picture of your child reading...

I've been reading so many great books with my little ones lately, and lots of reviews are in the works. While I'm working on those, ...

Always a fan of a great story, Clever Jack Takes the Cake is a new story with an old-fashioned fairy tale feel. Upon receiving an invitatio...

We're gearing up for a 6+ hour road trip in the upcoming weeks, and I was hoping to check out some audio books from the library for my...

One of the things I love most about reading to my kids is being able to re-read books I read when I was young and relive memories. While sh...

More toddler goodness abounds with this really fun board book set. Originally published in Great Britain, Market Day is a four book set ...

I don't know about you, but I am counting down the days until Mockingjay , the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy, releases on Augus...

Two new books from Seven Footer Kids are huge hits in our house.  First is More Life-Size Zoo: An All-New Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia ...

I left the teaching profession seven years ago to pursue other career opportunities, and while there are many things I miss about the profes...

What do you get when you mix a bird and a turtle? A birdle of course! What about a gorilla and a pelican? A gorillican? In Todd H. Doodler...

Hoo-boy, the books in my TBR pile have been stacking up since "Junior" was born, but a sprained ankle forced me to take a break th...

I never thought I'd ever look at a photograph and say, "What a beautiful frog!" But these words indeed came out of my mouth mo...

Some of your young readers and aspiring writers may be interested in this contest. NEW YORK, NY – April 26, 2010 - Random House Children...

When asked to list predators, most people begin with predators that roam the land, like lions and tigers. But there is an entire world of pr...

Simple. Stunning. Fun. Those words describe Mirror , Suzy Lee's newest picture book. In this wordless picture book, a young girl playful...

One day Hugo, a cute little purple guy, finds a red string, a really, really, really long string. As he follows the string through town, he ...

The Dead-Tossed Waves is a companion book to Carrie Ryan's The Forest of Hands and Teeth . Gabrielle, or Gabry, has lived her entire l...