Category Archive: Best Books for Kids
Best Interactive Print Books for Kids
April 23, 2019
Reading a book to a child is a lot harder than it looks. While writing Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age, all the experts told me to be more interactive when reading. However, not all books will create an enthusiastic reading experience. At the American Library Association annual conference, I had the awesome privilege to […]
Free Born Reading Newsletter for Parents
February 23, 2019
Born Reading is a work in progress. In Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age, I share hundreds of books and apps that parents can use with kids. Now that the book is published, I still find great new apps and books every week. To keep parents and kids informed, I launched a free newsletter […]
How Comic Books Change a Kid’s Life
July 10, 2017
Have you read a comic book with the kid in your life lately? I’m heading to Comic-Con International with my daughter next week, and it is a good time to remind parents and caregivers: comic books can change a kid’s life. I passed my childhood comic book collection on to my daughter recently, and we […]
Sanjay’s Super Team Inspiration
February 28, 2016
Did the kid in your life love Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur? The film included the Academy Award-nominated “Sanjay’s Super Team,” a brief animated movie that told the story of a boy learning to appreciate his father’s religious traditions. The animated short ended with an epic superhero-style mythological battle inside the kid’s imagination, and all the art was literally inspired by “The […]
How To Beat Math Anxiety
November 10, 2015
Do you have scary memories of math? If you suffer from math anxiety (and I most certainly do), you need to work hard not to pass on this fear to your kids. While researching my book, I turned to Laura Overdeck and her excellent Bedtime Math books for support. Overdeck worried that most math workbooks and […]
Best Children’s Book Treasuries
November 5, 2014
My daughter Olive loves it when we discover a new children’s book treasury at the library. These special collections include multiple storybooks in a single book, giving her a chance to choose stories from the table of contents and keep reading her favorite books. Over at Goodreads, I created a list of The Best Children’s […]
Book Shrines for Children
August 4, 2014
Over the weekend, we made a very simple “Shrine To Children’s Literature” at home, celebrating some of my daughter’s favorite books. In her wonderful book, Happier at Home, author Gretchen Rubin describes how she built a “Shrine to Children’s Literature” in her home. She found joy in seeing “all my beloved titles lined up together” in […]
Shel Silverstein & the Art of Interactive Reading
July 15, 2014
When I was in grade school, Shel Silverstein’s books were perpetually checked out at the library. His silly and mischievous poems will inspire any kid. It was the first poetry I encountered as a young reader. If you struggle to keep kids entertained while reading a book, you should listen to Silverstein’s rock star reading style. He can make […]