Today is National Family Literacy day, the start of a whole month devoted to families reading together. To celebrate, I’ll be giving away one copy each week of my guidebook, Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs. While Book by Book is geared to book clubs made up of moms and [...]

An article in today’s Omaha World-Herald talks about the rise of mother-daughter book clubs and it touches on some of the reasons these groups are so popular. If you’re already in a book club with your daughter, you probably know many of the reasons brought up in the article. For one, mother-daughter book clubs help [...]

Thanks to reader Amber A. for writing in about successful activities in her mother-daughter book club. Talking about the book and socializing are always a big part of book club meetings, but other activities can add a whole new level of fun. Here are the books Amber’s group read and the creative ideas they came [...]

So many great mother-daughter book club reads debuted this year. Here are just a few you may want to check out. Click on the title for a link to my review. For middle-grade readers and their moms (ages nine to 13) The Healing Spell by Kimberley Griffiths Little Nissa’s Place by A. LaFaye The Red [...]

My non-mother-daughter-book-club friends are often surprised when I say I really like reading the same books my daughters do. They’re inclined to think that anything that appeals to kids and teens can’t possibly hold the interest of adults. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I would say that some of my favorite [...]

When we read Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce in my mother-daughter book club, my daughter and I served lasagna for dinner, because it matched a special dinner mentioned in the book. Lasagna is such a great comfort food to serve to a crowd on a cold night. It’s also easy to prepare ahead so it’s [...]

A couple of days ago I saw an article at Boston Mamas.com (which is really great site to check out if you live in the Boston area) about a mother-daughter book club with girls who are 7 and 8. Here’s a bit of what Lindsay wrote about her reading group: “We are six mother-daughter teams, [...]

Fans of Heather Vogel Frederick’s Mother-Daughter Book Club series (I’m one!) are sure to be happy with her latest book, Pies and Prejudice. This year the book club girls are adjusting to high school and reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with their moms. And just as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy discover that you [...]