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Put Your Nose in a Book This November!
November kicks off Family Literacy Month and it’s the perfect time to get lost in a good book before the hectic holidays. Studies show reading helps with vocabulary, writing skills, attention span and memory. Even for the littlest kids, reading aloud with mom or dad is the most important activity when it comes to preparing children to read on their own. And the best way to share a love of reading with your kids is to guide by example as you sit and read a book.
20 Classic Books & Why You Should Read Them
Books have the power to connect us, transport us, and open our minds to new possibilities. As parents, we all want our children to take away something powerful from their reading — whether it's lessons in courage and resilience or a greater appreciation for nature and beauty. So why not introduce your kids to some of the greatest masterpieces of literature that have stood the test of time?
The Best Baby Board Books of 2022
When it comes to finding the perfect board book for your growing child, a baby shower or holiday gift, the options can feel endless. But never fear, we’ve narrowed it down to our favorites to make your shopping a little bit easier. From classics like Goodnight Moon and Jamberry, to more modern stories like Pete the Kitty and Little Blue Truck, these books are sure to keep little ones entertained (and hopefully asleep) for hours on end.
Lemony Snicket popped by to revel in Kansas City’s Explor-a-Storium
A No, David! installation at The Rabbit hOle. // Photo by Travis Young Daniel Handler is an author best known for A Series of Unfortunate Events, a 13-book children’s saga published under the name of its macabre narrator, Lemony Snicket. When Handler began his journey with the series, literary professionals raised their hackles at the grotesquerie that makes the books so whimsical and singular.
Ask Ann Cannon: Ann’s advice on books for little ones
Dear reader • NOT THAT YOU ASKED. But since I am an advice columnist — an advice columnist, in fact, who has another grandchild on the way — I asked a group of booksellers and children’s writers to identify classic picture books every child should have on his or her shelves. A few of our combined suggestions follow. “Where the Wild Things Are” written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak “The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another...
Want to Raise a Reader? 20 Baby Books for Your Child's First Library!
To raise strong readers, you need to start reading to your baby even when he is still in the womb (he loves to hear your voice). Sure he can't say actual words yet, much less read, but reading out loud to him helps develop his listening and speaking skills. So one way you can help further shape his love for books is providing him with library full of reads that are not only entertaining but also educational.
The Runaway Bunny, Board Book - at Christianbook.com
Celebrating 75 years, The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, beloved children’s book author of Goodnight Moon, in a sturdy board book edition, perfect for little hands. “If you run away,” said his mother, “I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.” A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek. Children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time.
53 Essential Children’s Books
You’ve got a lot of reading to pack into the wonder years. To make all that page flipping more exciting and meaningful we’ve whittled down the choices to the 53 we think are the most classic, creative, charming and overall bestest. Dig in! 1. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle Travel between universes and go on an adventure that digs into the meaning of family bonding and friendship. Note to sensitive bookworms: The plot can get dark and teems with unsavory characters. Ages 11 and up. 2.
Goodnight Moon (Board Book)
In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room--to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one--he says goodnight.In this classic of modern children's literature,… See more details below
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