Plus ‘Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob,’ ‘The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate,’ ‘The Wild Robot on the Island’ and ...

70 Short Middle Grade Books That Kids Will Love. Story by Imagination Soup • 8mo. I n 2023, I tweeted about the long lengths of recently published middle grade books.

Short Books for Kids That Make a Big Impact. Share full article. By Marjorie Ingall. May 2, 2019; Books for middle-grade readers can suffer the same affliction as all too many older-kid and grown ...

Parents who have young children at home are a relatively tech-savvy group. They are more likely than other adults to have computers, internet access, smartphones, and tablet computers. They are also ...

Once children start reading independently, the right short books will help them practice reading while keeping them entertained. By Maria Russo I have three kids, so I can talk for hours about the ...

Take a trip down memory lane with us as we reminisce about the beloved, short children’s books that were later adapted for cinema (or as a made-for-TV movie). More than two decades after he ...

Winter can be stalked, talked, tracked, cracked and even ridden, as Nancy White Carlstrom tells it in “Counting Winter,” a picture book of short, playful poems that encourages children ages 4 ...

THE SHORT book, long underestimated, has a lot going for it. To start with the prosaic: if you want to get through more volumes, short is shrewd. Slender books can be slipped into a bag or coat ...

Julia Donaldson has written more than 100 children’s books that have sold tens of millions of copies. Her most famous, “The Gruffalo”, turned 25 years old in 2024. “The Paper Dolls” is a ...

This short collection of essays finds the good in the small things, from birthdays to the praying mantis. Gay’s follow-up, The Book of (More) Delights , was published this year. $10 at Amazon ...

We spoke with teachers and librarians to find the best children's books, from board books to graphic novels for middle schoolers. Here are our top picks for 2023.

A new children's picture book introduces little kids to a big topic. UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: (Reading) "This Book Is Banned" - words by Raj Haldar, pictures by Julia Patton.