Across Berkeley, students, teachers and families are joining this year's Berkeley Mock Newbery Book Clubs . Every elementary school has ...

Environmental issues impact and threaten our lives in so many ways--from raging fires to supersize storms. Here are six novels that tackle s...

Our Mock Newbery list stretched readers to try out books they may not have been drawn to initially. Two historical fiction books particularl...

The best historical fiction sweeps me up and transports me to another world. With Lara's Gift, Annemarie O'Brien carried me away to ...

I write a monthly column for  Parents Press , and this month they're focusing on pregnancy and newborns. So I thought we'd share abo...

I am so excited to announce the  finalists for the 2012 Cybils Book Apps Award . The Cybils Award recognizes books for children and young ad...

There are times a novel settles into my heart and stays there. When I pick it back up, the narrators' voice fills me once again with emo...

Kids love books that make them laugh, and older kids love books with puns, jokes and goofy action. But they also want a story arc to a book,...

Here's something not many people know: when I was young, I used to tell my favorite cat all my secrets and troubles because I knew that ...

Finding books that work just right for new readers is a tricky business, as many families know. Children who are new to reading on their own...

Students at my school love graphic novels. I've said it again and again. They are drawn to this visual storytelling. Do you have a new r...

Our 2nd graders at Emerson have loved thinking about which picture books should win the 2012 Caldecott Medal , participating in a mock Calde...

I've been wondering about how books hook readers, how they draw us in, and what makes us stay. Sometimes, it's immediate conflict an...

I have launched into exploring the best American picture books by reading as many Caldecott winning books, decade by decade. The Caldecott A...