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A book by Dav Pilkey, author of the Captain Underpants and Dog Man books elementary-age students love, has just been pulled by its publisher because of racist imagery. This comes in the wake of the recent announcement Dr. Seuss Enterprises that it will no longer be publishing six of Seuss’ lesser-known titles due to portrayals that are “hurtful and wrong.” […]
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With some great exceptions, most kids have a hard time striking up a good conversation with their grandparents — something that’s become all the more obvious in this era when grandparents and grandkids haven’t been able to meet in person. The origin story of how a couple of grandparents wrote So to Speak: 11,000 Expressions That’ll Knock Your Socks Off […]
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Celebrity parents in print! Joanna Gaines, Gabrielle Union and more stars have released picture books for children. The Fixer Upper star published her first kids’ book, We Are the Gardeners, in March 2019, which she cowrote with her and husband Chip Gaines’ five kids — Drake, Duke, Ella, Emmie and Crew. “We wrote this children’s book together to tell the […]
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Many American kids experience Martin Luther King Jr Day the same way: A lesson on the “I have a dream” speech and a day off school. Like with the upcoming Black History Month, its an event non-Black parents, and especially white parents, can ignore or pay lip service to. A common piece of advice for white parents wanting to do […]
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My tween daughter still clambers into my king-size bed every night, without fail, carrying a stack of bedtime stories. It is a ritual that simultaneously warms my heart and grates on my frazzled nerves. Reading is one of the very first things we did together when she was born; that our time spent together left an indelible mark on her […]
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Teaching our kids about diversity is imperative; when we play and work with people of different backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, abilities, religions, and perspectives, we do challenging mental work that enhances creativity. We become, in effect, smarter. And regardless of our kids’ own heritage or the diversity of our own neighborhood, we can positively introduce children to diverse stories […]
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Nothing makes me happier than shopping for new books, whether buying them for myself or for others. I especially enjoy shopping for children’s books and take great pleasure in finding the perfect story for a special kid. But in today’s not-quite-caught-up publishing world, this can get challenging. Although there are increasingly more options out there, it can still be difficult […]
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