Sister Princess, Brother Squirrel is a charming tale about siblings and the special bond that can develop between them. It is for young readers or young listeners, perfect for story time or bedtime.
Month: October 2013
Building positive identities and a respect for differences means weaving diversity into the fabric of children’s everyday lives. Working with families is an important first step in helping children accept, understand, and value their rich and varied world.
Conquering separation anxiety from a parent is a right-of-passage for both children and their parents. Mama Goes to Work is about a spunky sheep named Shelly that is forced to deal with separation anxiety when Mama starts a new job.
Young-adult fiction, commonly called “YA fiction,” has exploded over the past decade or so: The number of YA titles published grew more than 120 percent between 2002 and 2012, and other estimates say that between 1997 and 2009, that figure was closer to 900 percent. Ask a handful of young-adult fiction writers what exactly makes a YA novel, though, and you’ll get a handful of conflicting answers.
When the tablet revolution descended upon us, I was an early adopter for sure. I bought the first iteration of the iPad; I also got a Kindle. A voracious reader, I was now a voracious tech consumer.
Every kid deserves to be silly. And every grandma deserves to dance. No matter what anybody else thinks. Those are the two key themes in the new children’s picture ebook from award-winning author Kathy Lynn Harris and illustrator Katie MacGillivary.
I can’t get my kids to read. They’re too busy playing on their computers and hi-tech devices. They read all the time, of course, but they aren’t reading BOOKS.
The Crow Who Was Not Asked to Stay is a poetic picture book about unexpected friendship, written for young children ages three through seven and will appeal to bird and poetry lovers of all ages.
Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz will appeal to readers who are interested in history and stories about the Holocaust and stories of survival.
Japanese can be daunting to learn. There are three alphabets—Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana, none of which resemble the English alphabet with its Latin script.