Category: Children
YouTube Channel: TED From the Description: Childhood is surreal. Why shouldn’t children’s books be? In this whimsical talk, award-winning author Mac Barnett speaks about writing that escapes the page, …
Tim Burton is a unique artist, author, film director, animator and producer. Born in 1958, Burton is famously known for his dark, gothic, quirky, yet somehow childish films such …
Got the back to school blues? That’s normal- even the most bookish of us would rather lose ourselves in a good novel than knuckle down with a textbook. Well, …
You always said you wouldn’t be the parent to push the shattered dreams of your own life onto your children. But here you are, sitting up at night shuffling through …
At least ten years ago I sat down to read a book, and all that time later, I can still remember the experience vividly in my mind. Anne Shirley …
For my ninth birthday, I was given the first three Harry Potter books. I was a little too young to read them myself and understand everything so my mom …
According the the American Academy of Pediatrics, reading aloud to children, starting at infancy, is important for building language, literacy, and emotional skills. As parents of adventurous preschoolers know, …
Cryptography, the art of making and breaking codes, is enjoying some time in the limelight thanks to the Voynich Manuscript, a 15th century text written in a code that …
It’s back to school season, and you know what that means: students everywhere are loading up their backpacks with all the necessary supplies, like pencils, pens, notebooks, and books …
Remember those days as a kid when reading was better than watching a movie? If you were a serious and ambitious sort, Peter Pan, The Hobbit, Little Women, and …
There’s a reason why many of the classics feature an animal as their main character. Whether the story is meant for children or adults, animal characters give authors freedom …
Jessica Roberts
August 22, 2016
Autobiography, Banned Books, Book Lists, Book Lovers, Book Porn, Children, Classics, Drama, Human Interest, Reading, Short Story, TBR
Do you read the same books over and over again? Are you stuck just reading authors you know? If so, you may be in a reading funk, but never …
Have you ever had a dream that was so real, so unsettling, or so intriguing that you couldn’t get it out of your mind? Well, these authors have and …
Take it from me—the first couple of years with twins are hard. Really, really hard. Yes, you have double the giggles and the cuteness, but you also have double …
Katie Di Filippo
August 19, 2016
Authors, Autobiography, Book Lists, Book Lovers, Children, Classics, Dr. Seuss, Dystopian, Fantasy, Harper Lee, J.K. Rowling, Literary Fiction, Literary Quotes, Reading
Some of our favorite authors can weave a phrase together so eloquently that in a mere few words, we are inspired. These quotes from some of the most loved …
Brian Baek
August 18, 2016
Book Lists, Children, Classics, Comics and Graphic Novels, Drama, Ernest Hemingway, Family, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Satire, Short Story, Suspense/Thriller, weird fiction, Young Adult
Reading takes up a lot of time so sometimes it’s satisfying consuming a book that can deliver a good read and interesting thoughts in few number of pages. Here …
Do you still have a soft spot for those Roald Dahl books that you loved as a child? Well, you’re not the only one! With his books having sold …
In some neighborhoods, finding a book may be harder than you’d think. A bit like how “food deserts” describe areas where it’s difficult to buy fresh, healthy food, “book …
Baby showers make an excellent opportunity to inspire new bibliophiles. Long after onesies are outgrown and diapers are disposed of, books will endure, pulled out and read time and again. …
The 90’s were a time many of us can look back on fondly, remembering all the things we loved. We had a century full of awesome, ranging from Full …