Natasha Davis has always encouraged her daughters to read. So she was delighted when Nilah, a third grader at King Elementary ...
From an amateur sleuth with a limb difference, to a nonverbal boy with a superhero alter ego, the characters in these books ...
On The Next Chapter, writer and broadcaster Bee Quammie  and CBC Books producer Lucy Mann sat down with host Antonio Michael Downing to talk about some great books to get kids reading over the winter ...
Books are an incredible tool to help children gain empathy by reading about other cultures and walking in someone else’s footsteps. There are approximately 23,000 young-adult titles in the collection.
Andrew Polk, 26, teaches 10th-grade English in suburban Ohio, not far from where he grew up. As a high school student less ...
What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...
Summer vacation means more time for reading — for fun! Jenna Bush Hager is here to help with her annual Read With Jenna Jr. list, designed for kids across an array of ages. "The list has everything.
Meghan Cox Gurdon says farewell to her column reviewing books for children, and shares some of her favorites from the past year.
Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.
Those innocent bedtime stories you lovingly read aloud night after night contained sophisticated adult themes that sailed right over young heads but spoke directly to your parental experiences and ...
I remember reading Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, to my two oldest kids — maybe they were 5 and 7 at the time. The younger of the two could easily be overwhelmed by empathy, and I ...