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In Praise of Audiobooks for Children
Your child will enjoy, and benefit from, listening to children's audiobooks, and there are a great many audiobooks for children to choose from.

Keep Your Children Reading During the Summer
Learn about library summer reading programs and how reading children's books during the summer can help beginning readers and middle readers maintain or improve their reading skills. Encourage your child to read a book regularly.

Summer Reading Fun
Learn about public library summer reading programs for children, as well as recommended summer reading lists of children's books for your child, from series, read alouds, and chapter books to age and grade level reading booklsts. Find out how reading children's books aloud to your child can also help the child who is a beginning reader or a middle reader maintain or improve reading skills.

Create Your Own Children's Booklists
Here are two excellent online children's literature databases that you can use to create booklists by theme or age for your children. Use these online children's literature databases, the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University and the Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature to find children's books on a particular subject and to find a special book for your child.

Heroes Symbols and Stories of the USA
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, there has been an upsurge in interest in children's books that feature heroes, symbols, and stories of the United States of America. Here are some books you should know about and,hopefully, you will find the perfect book for your child.