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All it takes is a few bedtime stories to hook your kids on the written word. But if you want to cement a love of reading, you have to keep at it. Which is why we decided to add a few more books to our list of nighttime reads we LOVE for the kids this Valentine’s Day. Continue reading »
Sometimes the best way to relate to your kids is simply to get gross – and if it takes a bedtime story to do it, hey, at least they’re learning.
And thank goodness for reprints because Candlewick has re-released the must-have book for getting down on their level. Warning, you may itch uncontrollably after reading this one. Continue reading »
Regardless of his popularity polls at the moment, Barack Obama is a more popular president with children’s book publishers than his predecessor.
Less than a year into his presidency, Barack Obama has already made his way into dozens of children’s books – sixty to be exact. Continue reading »
We’re only mid-way through the long year of kids book-to-movie makeovers, and there’s already another biggie down the pike. The Berenstain Bears have reportedly been picked by Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy as his next pick for a kiddie flick.
Levy told USA Today he’d “like the film to be un-ironic about its family connections but have a wry comedic sensibility that isn’t oblivious to the fact that they’re bears.” Continue reading »
There are crappy names, and then there are names that were perfectly fine until a single mom wrote an internationally best selling children’s book and Warner Bros. started making movies about it.
Yes, I’m referring to Harry Potter. Not the boy wizard – the poor English bloke who shares his name with the fictional character. Continue reading »
In light of today’s debut of the “Where the Wild Things Are” movie, the New York Times Artsbeat blog addresses the question of what defines a classic children’s book. Writer Dwight Garner cites Eden Ross Lipson, the late children’s books editor of the New York Times Book Review, who believed that it wasn’t critics’ reviews or adults’ embrace of the book, but whether children choose to read it to their own kids when they grow up.
That’s a nice idea, really. I remember very few of the picture books I read as a kid, but one bigger-kid book has become a favorite in our house Continue reading »
When I heard the name of Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo’s new baby girl, I took a page from the Godfather and went for the mattresses. Well, a little to the left of the mattress, actually – the kid’s bookshelf.
Because Pompeo’s pick had a ring to it that was awfully familiar.
And then I found it Continue reading »
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