Honestly, I don't know what happened last year. I don't feel like I read... anything? But I did. I just don't remember much. It's been a challenging year, for many of us, I think. Our brains are good at helping us to mitigate stress by making sure we don't remember it well, but that also affects remembering the good things (like great books). So I'm combining all the categories for my list this year because the list will most definitely be shorter. Here's are some 2025 books

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...

Sharing picture books is a great way to grow social-emotional skills like empathy. Reading a story offers a great opportunity to put...

Did you know that learning about shapes helps with learning letters and numbers? It does! Being able to recognize shapes helps with...

Every month I share a booklist to go along with the theme of the program I'm doing at my library that month. This month we're exploring...

The past couple of days, I had the opportunity to work at my library's maker booth at Denver's FanExpo. I've done it several times...

More books for babies! We might be getting a little more complicated here, but not much. But books will start having more of a story arc...

So, first, I admit, "babies" is a broad category. There is a difference between what a newborn might respond to versus a 9 month old...

*[cross-posted on In The Writer’s Web] I realized recently that two of my manuscripts have unreliable narrators. One is a “voice...

What do toddlers like in picture books? What kinds of books will keep them most engaged? Young toddlers are still developing their eyesight, so super-complicated images with lots of detail might be harder to decipher. They need more information spelled out in the text, and a simpler plot with fewer sentences - one or two per page - as their attention spans are short. VERY short. Toddlers, in general*, love: books with repeated refrains, simple concepts (counting, colors, numb