Category: Children’s
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Middle Grade Madness [Bracketology]
This is a guest post by Teddy Steinkellner. He is the debut author of Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga, which was released by Disney-Hyperion on August 20th, and another upcoming YA book to be released in the summer of 2014. He is also the brother of regular Book Riot contributor (and book girlfriend) Kit…
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Mail Call: Kid Lit Stamps From Around the World
Earlier this summer, Canada Post honored Stella — the title character of a series of picture books by author Marie-Louise Gay — with a series of stamps. It’s the second stamp from Canada Post to feature an image from children’s literature, and it got me thinking about other countries around the world who have featured…
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50 Books to Read Before You’re 11 3/4: Book Riot’s Twenty-Five
I’m just back from six weeks in the UK, where the amazing National Trust has an advertising campaign on the go called 50 Things to Do Before You’re 11 3/4. The idea is that there are certain things that are simply key to a proper childhood, and so before one turns that magical age of…
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Marketing Books To Girls
I say to my daughter, 6, trying to entice her toward literature and away from glitter in the book store, “How about A Wrinkle in Time?” No, she says. “The cover isn’t ‘glitzy.’” She actually knows the word glitzy. How did this happen? Note to self: OMG. How about Wind in the Willows? Treasure Island?…
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New Cover for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS Revealed
Over the last few months, Scholastic has revealed the new cover art for everyone’s favorite boy wizard. Here’s the final installment for the books, which will be released individually and as a boxed set in paperback on August 27th. And here’s the scene you’ll get when you line up the new editions together. See the other…
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Of Mice and Pen: Some of the Bravest Squeakers in Literature
This month, Archaia released Mouse Guard: The Black Axe, the latest hardcover collection of David Petersen’s Mouse Guard. I’ve been waiting for this book for months now, and was thrilled when it arrived in my local comic book shop. Unfamiliar with Mouse Guard? It’s a fantasy series that focuses on brave mice soldiers who guard the…
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RUNAWAY BUNNY starring Liam Neeson
Credit for this mashup goes to reader Kyle Behymer who left this comment on a previous post: Whenever I read The Runaway Bunny to my kids I hear Liam Neeson’s voice in my head: “I don’t know why you’re running away. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for junk food I…
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5 Wilderness Novels for Your Junior Thoreau
I was eight when I first went away to a rustic girls’ camp in Maine. An enthusiastic tomboy with a propensity for climbing trees and building forts, I was completely dazzled by this wilderness escape. At the end of the week I wanted to steal a canoe, row over to the other side of the…
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A Reading List Fit for a Royal Baby
Welcome, royal baby! Go on, take a breath, enjoy this new world you’ve entered before you learn what it means to be third in line to a role shaped by centuries of noble tradition. (Or not.) Passed your Apgar test? Good. Your lessons begin now. Let’s talk about books. I suspect you’ll get quite a…
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Best Children’s Book Stores in The US?
Good independent children’s book stores are hard to come by. At best, suburban parents can stumble into an assortment of so called children’s books at Target. Which is sad given the massive political air formations being blown about how important it is for parents to read good literature to children. The benefits! What of parents…