reading

School Age Kids

Gross books that little kids really love

When it comes to the early reading set, complicated plots aren’t very important. Pee jokes and boogers? Those are very important....

Family Activities

Board books for the artsy mom and curious toddler

Tired of Dr. Seuss, Elmo and Pooh? You can teach your child to appreciate the fine arts of painting and literature with this roundup...

Family Activities

Celebrate National Library Week

National Library Week takes place every April to celebrate our country's libraries, librarians and to promote library use. Encourage...

Family Activities

Celebrate our librarians, one book at a time

New York City children’s librarian Thea Taube found an American Girl doll in the office several years ago. Her idea? Lend the doll...

Parenting Tips & Advice

6 Books to help children cope with deployment

Books are undeniably a great resource that can give children not only a literary reasoning of a situation, but also an excellent...

Activities for Kids

Best Easter books for kids

Get ready for Easter by coloring eggs, decorating your home and reading about the history and traditions of the holiday. Teach your...

Child Development & Health

6 Steps to raising a smarter child

Encouraging your child to read, ask questions, stay curious and be creative will help foster a lifetime of knowledge gathering.

Mom & Dad

More than Mommy porn: “Why I read smut”

Intrigued by the smutty books you keep hearing about at the salon or on Facebook? Learn why moms just like you are opening up about...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Practicing Gratitude: Rediscovering reading

I’ve always had a stack of books on my nightstand. Both fiction and non-fiction titles waited in a neat pile for me to crack their...

Parenting

Preschool story time: 5 Classic must-reads

If you teach your children to love reading at an early age, there’s a good chance they’ll have a hobby for life. Curling up with a...

Parenting

6 Ways to encourage a love of reading in preschoolers

It’s never too early to fall in love with reading. Help your little bookworms develop a lifelong love of reading with these simple...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Mom Blogger Face-off: Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey?

Fifty Shades of Grey has become the summer "it" book to read. Do you dare?

Parenting Advice & Columns

What I'm loving this week: 5 Fabulous steamy reads for moms

Looking for some steamy reads for the summer? Loose yourself in these fabulous summer beach reads.

Family Activities

Jennie Garth talks childhood literacy, A Little Bit Country and single parenting

You know her best as Kelly Taylor from Beverly Hills, 90210, but Jennie Garth is also a newly single mom of three daughters --...

Family Activities

Celebrity moms talk about their favorite bedtime stories

March is National Reading Month with the NEA's Read Across America Day on March 2. Reading bedtime stories to your kids promotes...

Pets & Animals

Top 5 Books for pet lovers

What better way to take a break from your busy life than to spend a cozy afternoon curled up with your furry friend and a good book?...

Mom & Dad

Best mom books of 2011

From the humorous to the practical and everything in between, here are some of our favorite books for moms that were published this...

Family Activities

How to create a family book club

You have your book club and you love it. It has gone so well, in fact, that you have joined a mother-daughter book club with your...

Monday Mom Challenge

Monday Mom challenge: Read a book

Remember when we all used to carry a book around in our bags? Whether it was a novel we were so enthralled with or a self-help book,...

Parenting

Controversial children's books

A handful of controversial kids' books have been making the headlines lately. From a book about a pig whose parents died to another...

Child Development & Health

Make time to read to your child

When you think about reading to your child, you likely think about being cozied up for bedtime with your rather young child,...