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#Children’s

Whether you’re looking for kid’s books online to read to your small humans or because you’re young at heart, we’ve got the best kid lit recommendations! Our kid’s books post cover everything from children’s picture books to chapter books for kids to middle grade fiction recommendations.

Riot Recommendation: Magic Realism for Kids

This Riot Recommendation request comes to us via Twitter: Finished The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane this morning & LOVED it! ...

Growing Up With Parallel Storytelling

In Growing Up With …, Jenn features picture books, middle reader, and teen books linked together by concept or theme. ____________________________ My ...

Rumpelstiltskin

I’ve withheld reading Grimms fairytales to my children thinking they were too scary. My son is scared of mummies and ...

Writing in the Margins: Books Before and After I Read Them

Though I would like you to lend me a book I am not the kind of person you should lend ...

Growing Up With: Tattoos

In Growing Up With …, Jenn features picture books, middle reader, and teen books linked together by concept or theme. ...

Growing Up With(out): The Fourth Wall

In Growing Up With …, Jenn features picture books, middle reader, and teen books linked together by concept or theme. ____________________________ The ...

#KidLit Classics: Bunnicula the Vampire Bunny

Bunnicula the vampire rabbit for kids.

Growing Up With: Robots

In Growing Up With …, Jenn features picture books, middle reader, and teen books linked together by concept or theme. ____________________________ It ...

Why I’m a Terrible Librarian

 This is a guess post by Rita Meade. Rita is a librarian who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She blogs ...

A Lesson About Imaginary Places from Maurice Sendak

I started Kindergarten in the fall of 1985. I was in Miss Clarke’s class, and one of my most vivid ...