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Time for Kids: Kids in the Kitchen Cookbook Created: Friday, June 14, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Time for Kids: Kids in the Kitchen Cookbook is a well-illustrated cookbook for children 8 and up that emphasizes healthy recipes.
Top 10 Children's Cookbooks Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
A good cookbook for kids can give your children a head start in learning to cook. If you are looking for one for your child, I recommend these children's cookbooks.
Encouraging Summer Reading Created: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Updated: Thursday, June 13, 2013
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 you...
Top 2013 Summer Reading Lists For Kids and Teens Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Thursday, June 13, 2013
These 2013 summer reading lists for kids and teens are among the best. You'll find children's books and books for teens - books for elementary school, middle school, and high school ages.
Celebrate Independence Day Created: Friday, June 24, 2011 Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Book Review: Celebrate Independence Day is a nonfiction children's book about the history of the holiday in the United States and how the Fourth of July is celebrated today.
Children's Books that Celebrate America Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013
These children's books, which could all be included in your Constitution Day, Citizenship Day lessons and Fourth of July celebrations, celebrate the United State of America, America the Beautiful, ...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Created: Sunday, December 07, 2003 Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013
If you are looking for a picture book for your child that children love to look at and hear again and again, try The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, one of his many popular children's pictur...
Give Children's Books as Father's Day Gifts Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013
These children’s picture books will not only bring enjoyment to young children, but these they will also make good Father’s Day gifts. Honor a beloved father by giving him a book that ce...
Kids' Book Censorship: The Who and Why Created: Sunday, December 07, 2003 Updated: Monday, June 10, 2013
Why is there book banning and censorship of children's books? Why do some people want to ban or censor books, including children's books and young adult books (YA books), such as the Harry Potter s...
Librarians Recommend Books for Boys Created: Thursday, February 26, 2009 Updated: Monday, June 10, 2013
Librarians Recommend Books for Boys - If you are looking for books for boys, get recommendations from those who know what appeals to boys - librarians. These recommended reading lists of children's...
Award-Winning Historical Fiction for Middle Grade Readers Created: Friday, July 22, 2011 Updated: Sunday, June 09, 2013
These books of historical fiction for middle grade readers are all award-winning children's books for kids within the Grades 4-8 range (upper elementary and middle school).
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page Created: Saturday, December 13, 2003 Updated: Sunday, June 09, 2013
For the 9 to 13 year old child who loves historical fiction, an oversize picture book of historical fiction like Castle Diary by Richard Platt, may be perfect book. Castle Dairy purports to be the ...
April 2013 Calendar of Children's Books Created: Saturday, April 01, 2006 Updated: Friday, June 07, 2013
The April 2013 calendar of children's books contains recommended children's books for the season, including books for National Poetry Month, National Library Week and more.
July 2013 Calendar of Children's Books Created: Thursday, May 28, 2009 Updated: Thursday, June 06, 2013
July 2013 Calendar of Children's Books - Here you'll find children's books for July holidays and events, including Independence Day (July 4th), the Summer Olympics, the birth dates of John Newbery,...
June 2013 Calendar of Children's Books Created: Thursday, April 23, 2009 Updated: Wednesday, June 05, 2013
June 2013 Calendar of Children's Books - Here you'll find children's books for Father's Day, the birthdays of Cynthia Rylant, Maurice Sendak and Eric Carle, and other June holidays and events.
Each Kindness Created: Friday, May 31, 2013 Updated: Friday, May 31, 2013
Each Kindness is a sensitively told and illustrated picture book about the impact of bullying that was written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E.B. Lewis.
Faraway Home Created: Sunday, January 04, 2004 Updated: Friday, May 31, 2013
Faraway Home is a poignant children's picture book that tells about an American child's fears when her father has to return for a while to his beloved homeland, Ethiopia. Those fears are assuaged t...
E.B. White on Charlotte’s Web and Farm Life Created: Friday, May 31, 2013 Updated: Friday, May 31, 2013
These quotations from E.B. White shed light on his classic children's book Charlotte’s Web and his views on farm life.
Across Five Aprils Created: Friday, May 31, 2013 Updated: Friday, May 31, 2013
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt is a Newbery Honor Book with s lot to offer readers 10 thorugh teens.
Guinness World Records 2013 Created: Sunday, December 16, 2012 Updated: Friday, May 31, 2013
What makes the Guinness World Records 2013 a book I recommend particularly for boys, even reluctant readers?
The Book of Perfectly Perilous Math Created: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Updated: Wednesday, May 29, 2013
The Book of Perfectly Perilous Math: 24 Death-Defying Challenges for Young Mathematicians contains math problems aligned with the Grade 5-7 Common Core Standards that are disguised as hair-raising ...
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Created: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is a classic picture book, the second book in a series of children's books by Bernard Waber about the adventures of the lovable crocodile.
75 Years of Randolph Caldecott Medal Winners Created: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 Updated: Monday, May 27, 2013
Learn about 75 years of Caldecott Medal Winners for picture book art in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Randolph Caldecott Medal.
The Hello, Goodbye Window Created: Sunday, May 26, 2013 Updated: Monday, May 27, 2013
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster is an appealing children's picture book whose illustrator, Chris Raschka, received the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal for illustration in 2006.
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little Created: Thursday, August 23, 2007 Updated: Monday, May 27, 2013
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little is a cut above most chapter books. It is a humorous chapter book about a nine-year-old year who procrastinates about doing an assignment - reading the book ...
What is Screen-Free Week? What does it have to do with children's books? Created: Friday, March 20, 2009 Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
What is Screen-Free Week, which used to be known as TV-Turnoff Week and Turnoff Week, and what does it have to do with children's books/
Hi-Lo Books for Reluctant Readers Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Hi-lo books are for reluctant readers who are not reading on grade level and who are not interested in books at their reading level. High interest low readability books provide reluctant readers w...
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous Created: Monday, April 29, 2013 Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous is gruesome, funny nonfiction that middle school students love. It is well-researched by Georgia Bragg, with funny illustrations by Kevin O'Ma...
Anniversary Editions of Children's Books Created: Monday, December 31, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
70th Anniversary Edition of The Little House - See a large image of the special anniversary cover of the classic picture book by Virginia Lee Burton and learn publication details.
May 2013 Calendar of Kids' Books Created: Sunday, April 12, 2009 Updated: Sunday, May 19, 2013
May 2013 Calendar of Children's Books - Here you'll find books for kids for Asian Pacific Heritage Month, Latino Books Month, Children's Book Week, Memorial Day and other May holidays and events.
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Created: Thursday, May 09, 2013 Updated: Thursday, May 16, 2013
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose is an award-winning nonfiction book about the life of a special bird.
Top Children's Books that Make Great Graduation Gifts Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 Updated: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss is one of several children's books that make excellent gifts for graduates. If you are looking for a unique graduation gift for a high school or college gradua...

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