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fromBikerumor
1 hour ago

Marley Blonsky Brings More Joy to Cycling with New Kids Book and SHREDLY Collection

Marley Blonsky's debut children's book, 'The Ragtag Best Friends Bicycle Club,' introduces readers to a diverse group of kids who are not 'typical cyclists,' emphasizing the joy of riding in various forms.
Bicycling
#childrens-literature
fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago
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The Thrill of Picture Books That Let Kids in on the Joke

Recent children's books with unreliable narrators allow kids to feel smarter than the story, enhancing their enjoyment and engagement.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago
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Children and teens roundup the best new picture books and novels

Bear finds hope in a tiny seed after his forest disappears, needing help from other animals to nurture it.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

The Thrill of Picture Books That Let Kids in on the Joke

Recent children's books with unreliable narrators allow kids to feel smarter than the story, enhancing their enjoyment and engagement.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Children and teens roundup the best new picture books and novels

Bear finds hope in a tiny seed after his forest disappears, needing help from other animals to nurture it.
#audiobooks
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fromTime Out New York
20 hours ago

A bookless bookstore is opening on the Bowery next month

Audible Story House opens May 1 in Manhattan, offering an immersive audio storytelling experience with high-end listening setups and community events.
Parenting
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Audiobook recommendations for kids, according to a children's book critic

Audiobooks create shared experiences for families and enhance children's enjoyment of stories during activities like road trips.
#parenting
Parenting
fromScary Mommy
1 day ago

How Do You Make Your Kid's Childhood *Magical*?

Creating memorable childhood experiences often relies on quality time rather than material gifts.
fromSlate Magazine
4 days ago
Parenting

My Kids Love a Classic Children's Book Series. My Husband Claims They Promote an "Agenda."

Homophobia in a partner can lead to significant marital conflicts, especially regarding children's upbringing and values.
Parenting
fromScary Mommy
1 day ago

How Do You Make Your Kid's Childhood *Magical*?

Creating memorable childhood experiences often relies on quality time rather than material gifts.
Parenting
fromSlate Magazine
4 days ago

My Kids Love a Classic Children's Book Series. My Husband Claims They Promote an "Agenda."

Homophobia in a partner can lead to significant marital conflicts, especially regarding children's upbringing and values.
#lgbtq
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 day ago
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These 10 oft-banned LGBTQ+ children's books teach powerful lessons of love, community, & identity - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks ago
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A librarian was fired for refusing to hide LGBTQ+ books from kids. Then something amazing happened. - LGBTQ Nation

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fromLGBTQ Nation
1 day ago

These 10 oft-banned LGBTQ+ children's books teach powerful lessons of love, community, & identity - LGBTQ Nation

At least 19 states restrict LGBTQ+ concepts in schools, leading to the banning of children's books that promote queer-inclusive lessons.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 weeks ago

A librarian was fired for refusing to hide LGBTQ+ books from kids. Then something amazing happened. - LGBTQ Nation

Library director Luanne James was fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books from youth access, sparking significant community support and fundraising efforts.
Brooklyn
fromBrownstoner
4 hours ago

Art Brings Seniors and Students Together in Brooklyn Heights

Art sessions foster intergenerational connections between high school students and senior residents through collaborative creativity and storytelling.
fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

The American Library Association has released its list of the most challenged books of 2025

The ALA documented 4,235 unique titles being challenged in 2025, the second-highest year on record for library challenges, just behind 2023's 4,240 challenges.
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fromFuncheap
4 days ago

Book Shop Comedy at Adobe Books (SF)

A free comedy show at Adobe Books features local comics in an intimate setting, encouraging donations to support the artists.
Agriculture
fromFuncheap
4 days ago

Free Book Talk: "Our Five Seasons" (Redwood City)

Farmworkers' experiences reveal the impact of climate change on agriculture in Alina Zárate's book, Our Five Seasons.
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fromFuncheap
5 days ago

SF's Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros Celebration (2026)

Community festival promotes literacy and joy for all ages with free resources, entertainment, and activities.
Books
fromHer Campus
3 hours ago

BOTM Is Saying "Nobody Reads Anymore." But How True Is That?

The tagline 'Nobody reads anymore' by Book of the Month is misleading and promotes negative feelings about reading.
#book-access
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fromBrownstoner
1 week ago

Volunteers Help Brooklyn Book Bodega Give Books to Kids

Brooklyn Book Bodega increases access to books for children and families, fostering a love for reading in underserved communities.
Brooklyn
fromBrooklyn Paper
1 week ago

Building stories and community: The rise of the Brooklyn Book Bodega * Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Book Bodega aims to increase access to books for children and families in New York City, addressing disparities in book availability.
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fromBrownstoner
1 week ago

Volunteers Help Brooklyn Book Bodega Give Books to Kids

Brooklyn Book Bodega increases access to books for children and families, fostering a love for reading in underserved communities.
Brooklyn
fromBrooklyn Paper
1 week ago

Building stories and community: The rise of the Brooklyn Book Bodega * Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Book Bodega aims to increase access to books for children and families in New York City, addressing disparities in book availability.
Parenting
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

How to Use Storytime as a Stress-Relief Tool for Kids

Children absorb adult stress, impacting their behavior and emotions, while shared reading helps regulate stress and build emotional security.
Brooklyn
fromTime Out New York
5 days ago

Broadway is transforming into a massive free library for Earth Day

New York City will host a car-free bookish block party for Earth Day featuring free books and literary programming.
fromwww.amny.com
4 days ago

BookCon to return to New York City this weekend for two days of literary fun after a six-year hiatus | amNewYork

BookCon aims to have something for every reader, whether reclaiming a love for reading or engaging with BookTok, creating a balance of scale and intimacy.
Books
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fromFuncheap
2 weeks ago

2026 Bay Area Book Festival + "Bookworm" Block Party (Downtown Berkeley)

The Bay Area Book Festival will take place on May 31 - June 1, 2025, featuring various events including workshops and headliner presentations.
East Bay (California)
fromThe Oaklandside
3 weeks ago

Hoover-Foster needs a library. Is this shuttered grocery store the answer?

Oakland is considering purchasing a former grocery store to convert it into a library, addressing a long-standing lack of library access in the area.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

Children's author Philip Stead chats about his new book

Bernadette embarks on a quest to find a missing goat to save her friend and prevent the king from eating turtle stew.
Fundraising
fromEpicenter NYC
4 weeks ago

How three Brooklyn moms are helping kids build their own home libraries - Epicenter NYC

Brooklyn Book Bodega has provided over 260,000 children and families with access to books and events promoting a love of reading.
#independent-bookstores
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fromSFGATE
1 month ago

Treasured San Francisco indie bookstore abruptly closes: 'Unfortunate reality'

Silver Sprocket is closing its Valencia Street storefront due to ongoing financial losses and unsustainable personal debt.
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fromTime Out New York
2 weeks ago

This New York reading retreat is rethinking book clubs

Page Break offers a unique weekend retreat where strangers read a novel aloud together, fostering community and enhancing comprehension.
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fromFast Company
1 month ago

The ultimate entertainment budget hack: Your local library

Local libraries offer free access to books, ebooks, DVDs, and audiobooks as a cost-effective alternative to expensive movie tickets and streaming services.
Education
fromMission Local
1 month ago

In a Bayview warehouse, kids scour dozens of shelves for 5 free books

The Children's Book Project provides free books to low-income students through warehouse field trips and has distributed over 3.4 million books across California since 1992.
#independent-bookstore
fromPortland Mercury
1 month ago

Literary Arts Cafe's Offers Curiously Good Breakfast in a Bookshop

Bacon, egg, and cheese, man. Come on. People always put it on a croissant or something. That's no good. You need strong bread-strong bread to withstand the heat and the grease. This exchange between the author and Andrew Proctor captured the essential philosophy of breakfast sandwich construction, emphasizing the structural integrity required of the bread to properly support the fillings.
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fromConde Nast Traveler
3 weeks ago

Book Lovers, These Towns Were Made for You

Cities are nurturing a return to reading with bookstores, literary festivals, and spaces for readers to enjoy books.
fromLondon On The Inside
1 month ago

One of London's Most Unusual Bookshops | Neighbourhood Watch

Running out of a tiny kiosk in Clerkenwell, Exmouth Cultural Kiosk is a secondhand bookstore and self-publishing project that sells books for as little as £2. The selection rotates often and can include everything from Tennyson to its own guide to Clerkenwell pubs.
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fromPortland Monthly
1 month ago

Multnomah County Retrofits Its Libraries for the People

The renovated Albina Library transforms from a historic building into a multipurpose community hub offering ESL classes, maker spaces, teen areas, and cultural programming beyond traditional book lending.
Books
fromScary Mommy
4 weeks ago

Scary Mommy 2026 Readers' Choice Awards Best Reading Retreats

Reading retreats provide an opportunity to escape and indulge in the magic of books.
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fromFast Company
2 months ago

These business partners designed their dream bookstore. It took a lot of 'manifesting'

Godmothers blends community, creativity, and commerce as a bookstore-café-events space co-founded by Victoria Jackson and Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.
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fromSFGATE
1 month ago

Staple bookstore to close one of last Bay Area locations after over 20 years

A Bay Area Barnes & Noble bookstore at Shops at Tanforan mall closes May 2 after 20 years as the mall undergoes redevelopment into office and residential space.
fromManutd
1 month ago

Lammens celebrates World Book Day

It's a fantastic initiative from the Foundation around reading and writing. I still read a lot today and it helps me in football as well. One of the great honours we have of playing for Manchester United is the amount of support we get from our fans and especially kids of this age. I know how important it is for them to see guys like us give an example to them and to support them.
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California
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
2 months ago

Berkeley teen helps fund children's library for families in Turkey displaced by 2023 earthquake

A 14-year-old donated toys and books to earthquake- and conflict-affected children in Izmir, sparking a community-run children's library that will become a permanent space.
Portland
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

LitWatch March: Portland Small Press & Art Book Fair comes to PNCA * Oregon ArtsWatch

Portland's first Small Press & Art Book Fair at PNCA March 5-7 showcases over 40 independent publishers featuring risograph books, zines, and experimental prints with free admission and workshops.
fromPortland Monthly
2 months ago

How to Make Book-Loving Friends IRL in Portland

The third Wednesday or Thursday evening of each month, comic book shop Books with Pictures ( 1401 SE Division St) hosts this open-invite book club devoted to a wide variety of graphic novels-from the Bitter Root series, about a family of sympathetic monster hunters during the Harlem Renaissance, to an illustrated retelling of the 1872 queer vampire murder mystery Carmilla. Sometimes artists and writers join to talk about their latest work.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It's like a giant book club': how schools are getting children excited about reading again

Research has shown there is a reading for pleasure crisis among children in the UK, where enjoyment of books has fallen to its lowest level in two decades. Not so here at Christ Church primary, a tiny Church of England school tucked behind the maze of HS2 construction works in Camden, north London, where children fizz with excitement about books.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

How America Learned to Love Barnes & Noble Again

Barnes & Noble, once a threat to independent bookstores, faced decline from Amazon but is now experiencing revival through physical store expansion and learning from independent bookstore models.
Parenting
fromDaily Mom magazine
1 month ago

Reading Area For Preschool: Cozy Corner & Nook Ideas

A thoughtfully designed reading nook encourages early literacy, sparks creativity, and cultivates a lifelong love of reading in young children.
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fromwww.7x7.com
1 month ago

13 New Books by Local Authors to Break for This Spring

Three new books explore pivotal moments in cultural history: a 1960s San Francisco novel about reproductive rights, a contemporary suburban thriller involving a Chinese American family, and Rolling Stone Magazine's counterculture origins in 1967.
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fromAxios
1 month ago

Black-owned bookstores reach record numbers, but many still struggle

Black-owned bookstores face economic fragility despite reported growth, with 90% earning under $250,000 annually and many evolving beyond traditional retail through community programming and partnerships.
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

How Scholastic became a cultural rite of passage for Canadian kids | CBC Radio

For many Canadians, Scholastic brings about an instant wave of nostalgia. Memories come flooding back of flipping through colourful catalogues, circling must-have books, and browsing tables stacked with trinkets from scented erasers to posters and pencils set up in school auditoriums during book fair week. For generations of elementary school students, Scholastic brought excitement and joy and for many kids today, even in an age dominated by screens, that magic hasn't faded, say educators.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Parents, please don't stop reading to your children a great picture book could change their life | Sally Rippin

Reading picture books aloud builds vocabulary, phonological awareness, brain development and gives children a school advantage while representing diverse family experiences.
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fromTime Out New York
2 months ago

NYC's top Black and queer-owned bookstore just revealed its best books for Black History Month

Gladys Books & Wine centers Black queer stories, serving as a Bed-Stuy bookstore and wine bar offering community, literary events, and Black love–focused programming.
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Spotify is partnering with Bookshop.org to sell physical books

Spotify is going all in on books in 2026 and partnering with Bookshop.org to let you buy physical copies of audiobooks and support local retailers starting in the Spring.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 months ago

11 must-read children's books by black authors in honor of Black History Month

Providing access and choice to diverse children's books helps Black children read more and discover history, culture, and role models through picture books and programs.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

These books are pushing boundaries': winners of 30,000 Inclusive Books for Children awards announced

Six female authors won the 2026 Inclusive Books for Children awards, with winning titles featuring diverse representation in children's literature across multiple age categories.
fromPortland Monthly
2 months ago

5 Oregon-Made Comics to Know

Sacco is from Malta. He immigrated here, I think when he was 11 or 12, and created a whole genre of comics journalism: He embeds himself in conflict zones, then writes a graphic novel. Palestine is incredibly powerful and it's obviously still relevant. It was the story of Palestine in the '90s. That's the book to go to if you wanted to start reading Joe Sacco.
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