The Children’s Book Review | July 8, 2016

The hot books of June and our abundance of giveaways have been trending on The Children’s Book Review over the past month, as well as the article How Picture Books Play a Role in a Child’s Development.

10 Kids’ Book Trends on The Children’s Book Review …

1. 20 Sites to Improve Your Child’s Literacy

There are a number of organizations and sites that provide online activities, teaching tips, and free books for children. Here are 20 sites to explore over the summer.

2. How Picture Books Play a Role in a Child’s Development

While these parents are pushing their kids to be on top of the game, they don’t realize that the intensive coaching can be counterproductive and they’re missing out on an important genre, critical in the role of a child’s development—picture books.

3. Where to Find Free eBooks for Children Online

The Children’s Book Review presents a guest post by education writer Karen Schweitzer.

4.   Best New Kids Books | June 2016

It’s time for our June edition of “Best New Kids Books!” Hooray for plenty of lazy, beautiful, summer reading time.

5. Win the Animal Planet Prize Pack: 4 Book Giveaway

Celebrate National Zoo and Aquarium month with us by entering to win this Animal Planet 4 book prize pack!

Giveaway begins June 16, 2016, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends July 16, 2016, at 11:59 P.M. PST.

6. Win a New Book Series: An Introduction to Civilizations Throughout Time, by Carole P. Roman

Enter to win a complete autographed set of the If You Were Me and Lived in … An Introduction to Civilizations Throughout Time series, written by award-winning author Carole P. Roman and illustrated by various artists.

Giveaway begins June 15, 2016, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends July 14, 2016, at 11:59 P.M. PST.

7. Disney-Pixar Finding Dory: Dory’s Adventure Poster-A-Page | Book Giveaway

Finding Nemo and Finding Dory fans can relive the underwater adventure by entering to win this fun book giveaway! What are you waiting for? Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Swimming, swimming, swimming all the way to the entry form.

Giveaway begins June 22, 2016, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends July 22, 2016, at 11:59 P.M. PST.

8. 5 Middle Grade Books That I’ll Never Lend Out to Anyone Ever | Selected by Beth Vrabel, Author of Camp Dork

Here are five books I don’t think you should ever share with anyone. You’re welcome to come here, though, and read them while I supervise. On second thought, you should probably just buy your own.

9. Best Selling Picture Books | June 2016

The best selling picture book from our affiliate store is Daniel Pinkwater’s oldie-but-a-goodie The Big Orange Splot.

10. Best Selling Kids Series | June 2016

This month’s best selling kids series from The Children’s Book Review’s affiliate store is Anthony Horowitz’s ALEX RIDER, a collection of spy novels for young adult readers. Our list of hand-selected series from the nationwide best selling Children’s Series list, as noted by The New York Times, features Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.

For more children’s book trends, you can follow along with all of our articles tagged with Book Trends and be sure to check out our Book Giveaways category.