Elizabeth's Children's Books Blog

Celebrate April Fools' Day with children's books. The books I especially like include both picture books and beginning readers. Several have rhyming texts and all are amusing. Arthur's April ... Read More

With so many children's book awards, how can you keep track of all of the books you might want to look for when you visit the library or bookstore? Learn ... Read More

The game of Quidditch, so popular in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, has been in the news lately. Thanks to Middlebury College students who created a land-bound version of Quidditch ... Read More

At this time of year, when children think of eggs, they tend to think of Easter eggs. For a fascinating look at different kinds of eggs found in nature, I ... Read More

The American Library Association (ALA) is not only the world's largest library association, with an important mission, it is also the source of a great deal of online information about ... Read More

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Randolph Caldecott. Why is the name so familiar to us? Randolph Caldecott was a nineteenth century English illustrator who was ... Read More

Middle school students love Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the humorous “novel in cartoons,” and I predict they’ll like the second book in the series Diary of a Wimpy Kid: ... Read More

Celebrate the season by reading the seasonal poems in Pieces: A Year in Poems & Quilts and enjoying the beautiful miniature quilts that illustrate each poem. Anna Grossnickle Hines ... Read More

At our house, we are already anticipating warmer weather and gardening. While we know it's not yet warm enough to do much, we are already eagerly looking at plant ... Read More

Involve your children in holiday preparations using cookbooks for children. Many children's cooksbooks use photographs to illustrate the steps in recipes, making them easy for even young children who ... Read More

Happy St. Patrick's Day! If you and your kids are like many people, you know St. Patrick as the patron saint of Ireland, and you know the legend of St. ... Read More

Doesn't it drive you crazy when you can remember the plot or a character, but you can't remember the title or author of the Little Golden Book you loved as ... Read More

Did you know that March is National Craft Month and that today is National Children's Craft Day? Doing crafts is one of the best ways to keep your kids ... Read More

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, you'll find nine recommended picture books, picture storybooks, and anthologies of Irish Folktales and Fairy Tales on my Top Picks list. The ... Read More

If you are looking for Easter books that very young children will enjoy, look for children's Easter board books. They are so sturdy you won't have to worry about ripped ... Read More

Have you and/or your kids read The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the 2008 Caldecott Medal winner by Brian Selnick? Because of the numerous sequential double-page spreads of dense pencil illustrations ... Read More

Dr. Seuss is not the only well-known children's book author and illustrator with a March birth date. Chris Raschka was born on March 6. His picture book Yo! Yes? was a ... Read More

The Story of Easter is the first of ten children's books on my list of the Top 10 Easter Picture Books. Christopher Doyle’s retelling of the Easter story is ... Read More

Until I read the adult bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by British writer Lynne Truss, I had no idea how much fun it could ... Read More

If you are looking for a good children's book for St. Patrick's Day, I recommend Tomie dePaola's Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland. As I have mentioned before, Tomie dePaola ... Read More

Since Dr. Seuss's birthday fell on a Sunday this year, today's the day schools across America are celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday as part of the Read Across America literacy initiative. ... Read More