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Welcome, families!
Roger’s baby brother with his “bloopah” Welcome to The Horn Book’s newest blog, Family Reading, a place to find children’s book recommendations, vigorous discussion and debate, advice, and humor about...
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Help! My newborn hates to read.
By now, we all know the benefits of reading to children from birth. The emotional bonding, the language development, the cognitive skills. Plus, there’s a sleep benefit, as Dr. Robert Needlman of Reach...
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Surviving Road Trips with Audiobooks
It began with Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking. I was planning a four-hour road trip with my kids, and I was searching for something besides the fail-safe DVD to entertain them during the drive....
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If There’s Something Strange in the Neighborhood…
I’ve been collecting Halloween-y type books for a few years, and when my kids were old enough to understand the significance of the candy-fueled holiday, they really got into reading about ghosts and...
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Books in the Home: “Mommy, Do I Have White Skin?”: Skin Color, Family, and...
When my son was five, he was watching TV when a commercial came on that showed a woman slathering her peach-colored arms with lotion. He glanced down at his own brown arm. After poking it with a...
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On “Radio Penderwick,” bedtime (audio)books, and more
Just like their print counterparts, audiobooks play many roles in the home. This week we looked at some different ways audiobooks accompany families — at bedtime during road trips, and really any time...
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BGHB at 50: Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, established in 1967, we will be publishing a series of appreciations of BGHB winners and honorees from the past. Further...
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With schools finished for the season, most have posted summer reading lists. Back in my school days, I remember two kinds of lists: the ones with required reading (classics to be read before grade 9)...
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Books in the Home: What My First Grader Taught Me About Reading
Miles reads to his baby sister. Photo: Summer Clark. What does it mean to learn to read? As a former first-grade teacher and a professor of literacy education, I have constructed plenty of answers over...
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Field Notes: Lucha Libros: Bilingual Battle of the Books
On May 3, 2017, fifty-six second- and third-graders and their parents gathered in the Pasadena Public Library’s Donald R. Wright Auditorium for the final battle of our third annual Lucha Libros reading...
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Nic Stone in Parents Magazine
“Pack a Super-Fun Lunch!” Though I don’t go out of my way to read parenting magazines (and I will likely never have it together enough to “Pack a Super-Fun Lunch!”), if I do see one, I’ll give it a...
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Mama-Llama Day 2018
We’d been wondering why a four-year-old Lolly’s Classroom blog post was generating so many new comments. Then we realized that Netflix had just released a new animated series based on the Llama Llama...
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Grandparents Day 2018
Grandparents Day is Sunday, September 9. Here are some recent books for young readers and listeners about grandparents, grandchildren, and intergenerational friendships that celebrate the special bond...
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Rosh Hashanah 2018/5779
Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (year 5779!); Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins next Tuesday, September 18, at sundown. These are times in the year for family, community, and...
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