Book challenges can be a lot of fun. They provide motivation to keep you reading, introduce you to new books, and let you share your selections with a group of like-minded readers. Currently there’s a great one going on at The Books for Walls Project called the Cuddle Up and Read Challenge. How can you [...]

If you’re looking for a gift to give someone who loves to read, you may want to check out Book Reporter’s recent article, What to Give, What to Get. Book Reporter publishes book reviews and other literary information; it is also the umbrella for a network of Websites such as Teen Reads, Kids Reads, and [...]

I recently got a note from author Katie Davis about an award given out for book trailers by School Library Journal. Here’s part of what she had to say: “Book trailers get kids reading more. I know librarians who say that when kids see a trailer for a book, that book circulates more. So support [...]

October marks the beginning of National Reading Group Month, a time to focus on reading groups of all types. Of course, you’re in the right place to find out all kinds of helpful information for mother-daughter book clubs and other parent-child book clubs. Here are a few other resources to check out if you’re reading [...]

Recently I cam across a huge list of books compiled by Librarian Neil Hollands from the Williamsburg Regional Library in Virginia. True to its name, this list is huge, and Hollands compiles it by culling book titles from lots of other “Best of the Year” lists. The resulting “megalist” is broken down into categories for [...]

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Teen Reads.com is one of my “go-to” sites for checking out reviews of books I haven’t read. So I was excited to see that the website has updated it’s Ultimate Teen Reading List. The list contains 400 titles, including favorites that have been out a while and new books to check out. The list is [...]

If you’re the parent of a younger child, you may be interested in this site I recently came across. It’s called Read Aloud Dad, and it’s written by the dad of three-year-old twins, a girl and a boy. Read Aloud Dad reviews picture books and other works of fiction and nonfiction. He’s only been writing [...]