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Raych Krueger

Raych has so many kids (like, two, but they’re super young, which makes it seem like there are more of them) and this really cuts into her reading time. She’s using her degrees in Early Childhood Education and English Literature to teach the toddler to read to the baby so she can get back to her trashy Victorian sensation novel, or whatever. She’s also teaching her kids to travel and eat broadly, mostly through example (Do As I Do is super important, you guys), and hasn’t gone a year without hopping on a plane since she was a teenager. She recently moved from the Canadian coast to the Canadian prairies, where it gets hella cold, and if not for the internet, she’d surely be dead. Blog: Books I Done Read Twitter: @raychraych

The Book-Order Form Workaround

On using Scholastic book order forms as library reading lists.

Gender Essentialism in Beverly Cleary’s RIBSY

On reading a classic to your kid that turns out to be sexist, and just not wanting to deal with it.

The 17 Most Random Celebrity Children’s Books, Ranked

Being good at a thing makes some people think they are good at all the things. Some people think that ...

How to Grown-Up: Books That Will Teach You To Be An Adult

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

5 Books to Break Your Heart

Winter is coming and winter is terrible and November is almost worse than winter because winter is coming. And the ...

DINOVEMBER: An All-Ages Reading List

Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving in the wrong month, so that it gets swallowed by goblins and ghouls and come November ...

The 9 Best Halloween Costumes Based On Children’s Books, Ranked

Last year for Halloween, my spawns were Wilbur and Charlotte because I wanted to make the baby into a spider, ...

What Do I Read To My 3-Year-Old That Isn’t Just Straight White People?

Reading bedtime stories aloud is boring and hard and anyone who tells you different is selling something. Bedtime comes right at ...

10 Overly Specific Cookbooks

I rarely use cookbooks because hello yes I have internet. Also because cookbooks be all like, How To Cook Everything ...

Books About Bodies, Babies, and Bad Touching for Children Ages 3-8

“Start teaching your children about sex before the child molester does.” via GIPHY Tooooooo creepy. That’s too creepy, right? For ...