Last Tuesday my daughter looked up from her book and said "I know who took the necklace." She was reading a mystery. I was reading the same book to her…
You have a ten year old at home. That child reads faster than you think. School books finish in one sitting. Library books feel too simple. The stories end before…
Nothing beats curling up with a kid and a book that screams "don't quit." I've done it a ton with my own little ones back in the day, watching their…
WHAT COLOR IS NIGHT? Image Credit...From \"What Color Is Night?\" By Grant Snider “Look closer,” this gentle bedtime book encourages. While nighttime might seem to be only black and white, there is color to…
Sometimes I, a full-grown adult, see a so-called lift-the-flap book, meant for babies and toddlers, and become almost tingly with the desire to feel those cardboard tabs under my fingers…
In a 2018 essay for Time magazine, the actress Gabrielle Union lamented Hollywood’s lack of imagination when it comes to casting people of color. Why, she asked, is it so…
I was always an avid reader, the kind of kid who’d wander through the library stacks, running my fingers along the hardcovers’ spines, judging them not by their covers but…
