Tag: Children’s Lit

Happy Spring! This one is for children who like it when things melt, new things blossom, temperature rises and short sleeves are in again: Welcome to Spring!  To celebrate the new season I’d like to offer you a beautiful, fun poem for the occasion. Let these lines roll off your...

Emmy and Oliver, written by Robin Benway, dives headfirst into choppy waters. Emmy and Oliver are best friends until they are seven years old, when Oliver disappears, kidnapped by his father. Cut to ten years later. Emmy’s life is restricted by her parents’ fear and she has never stopped...

Ruby Ruben, written by Candice Muñoz and illustrated by Branislav Gapic, asks children to see the world through the eyes of its titular character. Ruby is a young boy who “sees the world a little bit differently.” He imagines flying to the moon, touching the sky, being a superhero,...

If you walk into a preschool class, you will still most likely see children being children; jumping around, twirling, finger-painting (hopefully not the wall!), interacting with one another in various ways, learning how to fairly trade a teddy bear for a block tower. This is what they are supposed...

Written by: Molly McManus, PhD Candidate in Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin. Note: We Read Together presents this article in order to facilitate dialogue.  WRT doesn’t officially endorse or support the opinions below.  Why do rich kids end up doing better than poor kids in school? Of late, one common explanation...

Our kids made some great pieces of audio fiction. If you don’t like reading, fist donate to us and we’ll come show you how awesome reading is (if you’re wondering how awesome reading is, the answer is VERY). After you donate, you can scroll to the end of this...

Written by: Ryan Spencer, Clinical Teaching Specialist; Lecturer in Literacy Education, University of Canberra. When we think of reading for our children, we are often misled into thinking that we need to focus on one type of book, such as picture books or novels in order to practice specific, reading-related...

Last weekend marked the end of Banned Books Week, the annual book readers’ celebration of drawing attention to the dangerous history of literary censorship. In 2014, the American Library Association (ALA) Office of Intellectual Freedom received 311 challenges. When an individual finds a book unacceptable for any reason, they...

Colter Jackson’s debut picture book is a heartfelt delight. Ella and her elephant were the best of friends. But when Ella begins to notice the differences between herself and an elephant, she wonders: is this really my best friend? Are we too different?   It takes a lot of...

It’s that time of year.  The birds are chirping. The teachers are packing up their classrooms.  Trees and bushes are filling out, readying themselves for roles as home base or hiding place in epic hide-and-seek battles. The structure of your child’s day is beginning to look like a late-game...