Are you a girl who reads? If not, you should become one because readers make you pretty great catches. And if you have daughters, you might want to mentor them in the reading department, not just because others will want to date them, but because they will be really great, well-round women. That’s what the [...]

I asked my Facebook friends the other day to recommend some tried-and-true good books for second and fourth-graders, and I got such a great response, I just can’t keep this good news to myself. Here, a list of chapter books your young ones might want to try. Search them at your local library, and see [...]

Recently, we shared some tips for raising your kids to be readers, and now, just in time for Easter, we’ve got a great idea for what you can stuff in your little ones’ festive baskets: Books. I don’t know about you, but at our house, we love the Berenstain Bears books by Stan and Jan [...]

You need books in your house. Board books and books with mirrors and textures for babies. Books with nursery rhymes, colors and shapes for your toddlers. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, even dictionaries for your older kids. Gather up some kid-friendly magazines, audio books, comic books, newspapers and photo albums too. Start working on your library of [...]