Throughout the United States, we are feeling the rippling effects of family separation policies by immigration officials. How do we explain ...

Like our animal cousins, young children practice all sorts of skills through play. This powerful picture book takes readers to a refugee cam...

Empathy -- it's a vital quality to develop for all of us. How do we reach outside of ourselves to imagine being in someone else's sh...

"Ms. Scheuer, do you have a book written in Arabic?" -- Ghalla, 4th grade In our school district, Arabic is the third most com...

I find myself swimming in a sea of anger, concern and doubt--reading the news about Trump's abuse of executive privilege, banning refuge...

If you celebrate Christmas, are there special books that you read each year? Our family reads The Night Before Christmas every year, snuggl...

Fourth & fifth grade students across Berkeley are telling me that What Elephants Know is the best book they've read all year. They ...

I'm so happy to share Salsa , a delightful poem and picture book which is the latest in Jorge Argueta 's cooking poems. Argueta and ...

As our news is filled with global and local conflict, I wonder about how to share a sense of our global community with our young children. T...

As parents, we want our children to enjoy reading, so that they want to read more. The single most important thing you can do to help ensure...

Our 3rd grade teachers are also focusing on persuasive writing this month, and they are asking kids to identify problems and suggest solut...

Novels in verse have particular power speaking to kids. Some really like the way that there are fewer words on the page. It can make reading...

Do you have fond memories of reading your history textbooks? Probably not. So how can we make history more interesting for our children? W...

Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work helping women throughout Africa planting trees to improve the environment and...

I've raved before about Barefoot World Atlas -- the spinning globe that brings a traditional atlas into a new realm for young kids. Wel...