Choosing a book
Books for a child who...
A book lands hardest when it is about the thing a child is living through right now. These guides start from the situation rather than the shelf: the child who has started asking for the hall light, the one walking into a classroom for the first time, the one about to be demoted by a newborn. Each one covers what actually helps, what pediatricians recommend alongside reading, and how to tell a useful book from a pretty one.
Choosing a book
Children's Books About Cats, and Why the Cat Should Be Your Cat
Children's books about cats worth reading more than once, what makes a cat story work for a small child, and how a real cat changes the story entirely.
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Choosing a book
Books for a Child Who Is Afraid of the Dark: What Actually Helps at Bedtime
Books for kids afraid of the dark that actually help at bedtime, the kind that quietly make it worse, and six things to check before you buy one.
20 min read
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Books for Starting Kindergarten: What to Read in the Weeks Before
Books for starting kindergarten that make the classroom familiar before day one: what to read in the weeks before, and the mistake most parents make.
21 min read
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Books for a New Big Brother or Sister: What to Read Before the Baby Comes
Books for a new big brother or sister: what to read before the baby comes, when to start, and why the book should be about the older child.
21 min read
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Books About Kindness for Preschoolers, and What Actually Teaches It
Books about kindness for preschoolers that work: why a four year old cannot follow "be kind" as an order, what stories do instead, and the preachy ones.
22 min read
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Books for a Child Who Feels Left Out, or Ordinary, or Invisible
Books for a child who feels left out: what to read when they say nobody likes them, why reassurance backfires, and how to tell loneliness apart.
21 min read
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Books About Deployment for Kids: What to Read From the Goodbye to the Homecoming
Books about deployment for kids, stage by stage: what a young child understands, and which books help from the goodbye to the day the door opens.
21 min read
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Books Like Inside Out: Feelings Books for Kids Who Loved the Movie, Emotion by Emotion
Books like Inside Out, emotion by emotion: picture books for Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Disgust and the four new ones from Inside Out 2, and what to say.
21 min read
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Dragon Books for Kids: The Best Ones for Every Age, and Why Children Fall for Dragons
Dragon books for kids by age, from first picture books to How to Train Your Dragon, sorted by what the dragon does, and which ones help a child be brave.
21 min read
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Princess Books for Kids: The Best Ones by Age, for the Princess Phase and Beyond It
Princess books for kids by age, from toddlers to chapter books: princesses who do more than wait, when the Disney ones fit, and picks for boys too.
21 min read