Lots of books and videos are about the bold, brave extroverts. But, there are some great stories about slow to warm up kids who overcome their caution and go on big adventures or take on challenges that scare them. Look for stories where a shy or quiet or cautious or worried child trie...
Best Kids' Picture Books 2022 For Calming Anxiety Written by Alex Boniello, and April Lavalle, illustrated by James Kwan Coauthored by the producers of the musical Hadestown, this book addresses anxiety through the story of a robot who gets “the zaps” sometimes. At first, the robot tries ...
This is too reliant on insider knowledge to really appreciate it for the kids, and too immature and amateur for the adults. Do middle-schoolers and young high schoolers read picture books? Looking for a good book? Let’s Make A Movie! by David Gordon Green and Onur Tukel is a fun ...
It’s a received wisdom that kids should develop the habit of reading. And reading suitable books helps kids keep their love for reading. Picture Books Picture books are for readers aged 2—6. Adults have to read them to children over and over again, so the books must be fun for adult...
This is not a long book, but it addresses a hard subject for kids to talk about. 13 year old Rydr is on a train from California to Chicago. She is being sent to live with an elderly uncle she has never met because her grandmother has recently passed away. Several years earlier, Rydr...
Good books for kids: List of 800+ books read and recommended by both parents and children. Category (mystery, fantasy, horse, etc.) and reading level lists make it easy to find a book for any child.
In:2024,5 Stars,Adult Books,Literary Fiction Tagged:Author Interview,Books Forward PR,Coming of Age Including An Interview With the Author WHAT IT’S ABOUT After his father dies suddenly and his family’s fortune takes a nosedive, Jonas Shore starts selling weed and pills to cool kids at hi...
“I cannot imagine my childhood without a library or without books, or without knowing that I had the possibility to explore different worlds.”– Annabelle Jenkins, high school student in West Ada, Idaho, 2024 “They’re trying to pass laws about what we can think, what our kids can thin...
“We ain’t picture perfect but we worth the picture still.”– J. Col “Find me where the wild things are.”– Alessia Cara “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”– Oscar Wilde “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”– Eleanor Roosevelt ...
When my kids were little, my brothers had a bad habit of saying to them,“You don’t have to call me uncle… just call me by my name,”and“You don’t have to say sir to me.”My children would quickly respond with,“Yes, we do.”You see, my nieces and nephews don’t use ...