children's books

The Best Monthly Subscription Boxes for Kids

Monthly subscription boxes for kids make fantastic holiday or anytime gifts because they last all year long. You can find interesting gift boxes for all ages and many interests that will give kids new books to read, activities to do, science to learn, and more. And, I imagine that grandma or auntie will find something […]

The Best Villains in Children’s Books

Note: originally written in 2012 by educator, mom, and “education diva,” Ruth Spivak with updates and revisions in 2020 by Melissa Taylor. Mwahahaaaa! An awesome villain can really make a great children’s book. Oh sure, it’s great to have a hero who models virtue and courage, but it’s the villains who are often the most interesting and […]

25 Coolest Coloring Books Based on Children’s Books

Grab these children’s book inspired coloring books and get your kids doing a screen-free activity. Color before, during, and while reading the actual kids’ books! Here are four specific activity suggestions for using coloring books with your kids. Coloring books make GREAT activities for sick days and staycations! My kids like to color during read […]

16 Thanksgiving Books for Kids

Thanksgiving books for kids share the early history of the United States, gratitude, and thankfulness. Do you know that thankfulness is a habit–something to practice and make a regular part of your day? (Kind of like exercise!) We practice thankfulness each night in our family prayers. For other people, they might share gratitude at a family […]

Beautiful! 101 Books to Read Before You Grow Up

Both a list of recommended books and an interactive journal, 101 Books to Read Before You Grow Up: The Must-Read Book List for Kids by Bianca Schulze, is a beautiful tribute to children’s literature, designed to encourage readers to read and expand their worlds. Beautiful because it’s about children’s literature and beautiful in it’s playful presentation as […]

Free eBooks for Kids

Both my kids now own Kindles so they can read digital books, or ebooks. But I’m not ready to break the bank buying them books. Which is why we use Overdrive to download their children’s ebooks for FREE! All you need is a library card. And some patience. (Because this process is a few more steps than […]

New Children’s Books

Spring’s bounty of newly published books for kids is here with a round-up of new children’s books: picture books, board books, and non-fiction. New Children’s Books Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, created by James Dean I imagine it’s hard to follow the perfection of the first Pete the Cat book. […]

A Book-Themed Percy Jackson Birthday Party

Percy Jackson is a five book chapter book series about a 12-year-old demi-god boy whose dad is Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. Percy spends the series of light-hearted, adventurous books escaping from monsters, training at Camp Half-Blood (a camp for demi-gods) and questing — for example, in the first book, he tries to prove […]