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Reading to your kids is one of the best gifts you can give them, but finding story time favorites and, eventually, a series that they’ll want to explore on their own grows more difficult every year ...

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This year brought another stellar array of children’s books, which explore themes of friendship and family, adventure, inner lives and imagined worlds, and the full range of emotions of being a child ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For that reason, our list of the best children's books spans a wide age range: We cover everything from board books to chapter ...

We asked staffers at children’s publishing houses to tell us about their favorite children’s or YA book they read this year. Our only condition: it couldn’t be a book that their company had published.

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As a former English teacher with a background in literacy education, I’ve seen how imperative it is that kids have a solid reading foundation. At the same time, as a mom to three young kids, I feel ...