Holy Week and Resurrection Sunday have come up rather fast for me this year. Maybe it’s the same for you. Whether you’re wholly prepared to celebrate or skidding into the week barely hanging on, the list below is to serve you this week.
Parents often face this (wonderful) challenge: as children develop as readers, they often hit a voracious stage, where their ability to read books far outstrips their mom and dad’s ability to find them. Where can you turn in those moments? How do you help to keep that child’s love for books growing?
The other day, we told you all about the staff’s picks for middle grade books—we mostly love the classics, don’t we?—and now we’re giving one lucky winner their own set of all of these titles.
We’ve been cheering you on to enjoy Middle Grade books all month long, but we wanted to get in on the fun.
They’re comfort when kids are sad, encouragement when they are afraid, and emboldening when they are cowed by the real challenges the world presents. And, they’re often an opportunity to enter into a story shared with siblings and families.
A more honest review would have read: “I don’t get it. I’m not even sure why this is considered a children’s book.”
So many of you responded with your favorite middle grade titles last week that we decided to round them up and pass them along.
We’ve got resources, deals, and giveaways planned all month long to help you nurture your young reader.
The book filled a gap for me. I returned to it time and again until my copy was well-worn and loved.
An acquaintance described them with a phrase her six-year-old friend coined: “deliciously kind.” They’re the stories that remind us of the world that ought to be.
The lovely book, Children of the Forest, by Elsa Beskow, is a recent discovery for me that has me reminiscing about earlier days of my older children’s lives and hoping that my toddler can be outdoors as much as possible.
I see myself in the Velveteen Rabbit—less beautiful and more old-fashioned than my counterparts. Frankly, I sometimes feel as though I don’t fit in anywhere. I wonder: how do I become who I’m meant to be?
