Tovah Yavin The Jewish High Holidays are beginning in less than a week. Many Jewish children will be taking days off from school to celebrate and many school districts throughout the country will close for a few days to accommodate Jewish teachers and students. Your child, whether you celebrate these holidays or not, may wonder what they … Read more
It’s that time of year again. Back to School! But for many 4- and 5-year-old little ones, ‘back’ to school may really be starting school for the first time. Even with older siblings in the family, that can be a scary prospect. Some children may be changing to new schools, which is an equally scary … Read more
“This is a dark time for little bookstores and we probably won’t make it,” she said. “Would you like a job?” With that sentence, Louise Erdrich pivots from the opening setup of her novel, The Sentence, to the lives and affairs of a small staff running a modest bookstore in Minneapolis at a time of … Read more
A few decades ago, my husband and I found the house we wanted to turn into a home. He fell in the love with the backyard. I fell in love with an unfinished room that was to be the library I had always dreamed of owning. Related: The Most Visually Stunning Libraries in the World … Read more
Merriam-Webster.com defines ‘genre’ as a category of artistic composition characterized by style, form, or content. In literature for children, there is another type of genre categorized according to the intended reader and characterized by vocabulary, reading level, word count, age of the protagonist, subject matter, expected background knowledge, etc. Some of the usual divisions of … Read more
If your child demands that you check the closets and under the bed before they can go to sleep at night, this article is for you. It is also for parents of older children who get up repeatedly asking for yet another glass of water, then linger before running quickly down a dark hallway to … Read more
When we think of fairy tales, most of us imagine fawns cavorting in the forest, bluebirds spinning Cinderella’s ragged dress into a beautiful ball gown, and cute bunnies all to the backdrop of uplifting music. And at the end of the story, there is a simple moral to be learned that everyone knows will contribute … Read more
Before the pandemic, authors made in-person visits to promote their books. Authors of children’s books visited schools and libraries. The pay for these visits was usually – well, zero. I visited a few local schools, but I really couldn’t afford to go very far. Since the pandemic began, everyone knows how to hold remote visits. … Read more
