For Parents

Summer Reading Resources: Here are tips, reading lists and advice on encouraging your kids and teens to read during the summer. Use these summer reading resources to find appropriate books for your kids, from younger children to teens, and find ways of encouraging summer reading.

There are a lot of ways in which your child will benefit from listening to children's audio books, and there are a great many audiobooks for kids and audio books for teens available.

Read about how to keep teens reading during the summer to get ideas on keeping teens reading during the summer and other school breaks. You'll enjoy encouraging reading with these ideas for encouraging teenagers to read.

If you are looking for a way to increase communication with your daughter, a Mother Daughter Book Club provides a way and it's not hard to create one.

Learn about the many resources available, both online and in your community, to help you interest your children in reading throughout the summer.

An article by your About Children's Books Guide about using the public library and other resources to encourage summer reading.

It's important to your kids' reading skills that you encourage summer reading. Share your success in motivating your kids to make summer reading a priority.

Find the best in children's books and young adult books on these 2008 summer reading lists. You'll find children's picture books and books of fiction and nonfiction as well as young adult books of fiction and nonfiction on these 2008 summer reading lists.

An article about reluctant readers that provides tips, reading lists and information on hi-lo books.

Children's Books: These 10 resolutions for parents are designed to help them raise children who love reading and books. They include reading children's books aloud, going to the library and borrowing children's books, and encouraging reading.

Tips and recommended books from your About Guide Liz Kennedy to help your preschool or kindergarten age child prepare for, and adjust to, school.

What is the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance, also known as the NCBLA? Learn about the mission and projects of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance (NCBLA), its Web site, and the Our White House book and companion Web site.

Find out when Children’s Book Week, which is administered by the Children’s Book Council, is celebrated in the United States and what the purpose of Children’s Book Week is.

Parents, librarians, and teachers will find these guides to children's books books very helpful. They include parent's guides to children's books, guides to reading aloud and read-alouds, and much more.

"Books to Grow With: A Guide to Using the Best Children's Fiction for Everyday Issues and Tough Challenges" by Cheryl Coon is a helpful guide to children's books,both picture books and chapter books, that parents, teachers, and others can use to select appropriate children's books that deal with a variety of challenges that children cope with,...

Learn about the resources that make The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children such an excellent reference book on children's literature. Resources include information about children's wordless books, picture books, story books, early reading books, middle reading books, and young adult (ya) books.

If you love children's books, you'll want a copy of "What the Dormouse Said, Lessons for Grown-ups from Children's Books," a collection of quotations from more than 200 children's books that was compiled by Amy Gash.

An article by Your Guide Liz Kennedy about "Hate Hurts: How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice," an excellent guide for children and adults.

An article on an excellent book to help you choose appropriate books for your children.

Turnoff Week, formerly TV Turnoff Week, is a national initiative designed to get families to turn off the TV, Computer, Electronic games, etc. and rather than spending so much time with electronic media, to enjoy time together as a family. What do you think? Is Turnoff Week, formerly TV Turnoff Week, a good idea, or is it a bad idea and what you...

TV-Turnoff Week is now Turnoff Week and the sponsor, the Center for Screen-Time Awareness, encourages parents to turn off all electronic media during Turnoff Week. The encourages families to turn off their TVs, computers, electronic game systems, DVD and CD players, PDAs, iPods and cell phones during Turnoff Week, which was formerly known as...

A valuable resource for parents and teachers, categorized by age level, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

An online publication from the U.S. Department of Education that includes information for parents and activities for children, from babies through age six.

Here are 26 tips for parents, one for each letter of the alphabet, to help them encourage and support a love of reading in their children.

Information on the benefits of reading aloud to your child, with tips on selecting books, and recommended books.

Reading Rockets is dedicated to providing "information about teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle." It contains downloadable teachers' and family guides, articles, tips, and more.

What are your teens reading? What do they and you recommend as good books for teens?

Learn all about the Twilight series with this parent’s guide to the Twilight series. Read this parent’s guide to the Twilight series to find out more about the dark fantasy romance teens and tweens are reading.

Readers respond to the question, How do you celebrate Children's Book Week? Read the responses and submit your own responses as to how you and your family celebrate Children's Book Week.

Read what other parents have said in response to a question about favorite books from childhood that they have shared with their children. Then, share information about the children's books that were your own childhood favorites.

Here is a review of the award winning book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Learn more about this Michael L. Printz Honor book for mature teens and adults.

New parents will find these articles, How To tips and book reviews filled with tips about reading aloud, selecting children's books and raising a reader. New and expectant parent who want to raise a reader will find these resources helpful.