Did you know learning about math begins early? I'm not talking learning to add and subtract, I'm talking about foundational math skills ,...

Recently I was attending a webinar overview of a new online product with digital books for kids. Overall, the product was nice, and will...

Some recent YA and MG graphic novels worth reading!

I love middle grade fiction. Next to picture books, I read these the most. I have a long commute, so I get a lot of reading done in the...

Look, it's well into February and I'm finally getting around to writing about my favorite books of the previous year! Let's just say that...

In my 30s I was diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. I'm not sure what triggered it, although I was an anxious kid and so always...

Oh, preschoolers are fun. They've got OPINIONS and FACTS (about dinosaurs and firetrucks and Disney characters) and THINGS TO TELL YOU. They can handle more complicated storylines, where the action doesn't all happen on the page or in the words. Stories can be more nuanced, the jokes less obvious. But still, they're young, so attention spans are short. We don't need paragraphs of text - 3 or 4 sentences a page, max. But their eyes can find more details in illustrations and so

In my monthly library program, I choose an early literacy theme on which to focus. In November it was vocabulary - or, more specifically,...