In Praise of Dolly Parton and the Imagination Library
January 19th is Dolly Parton’s birthday, and as a fellow Tennessean, I consider her a book hero. She founded the[…]
Read moreJanuary 19th is Dolly Parton’s birthday, and as a fellow Tennessean, I consider her a book hero. She founded the[…]
Read moreLast week we previewed thirteen 2020 picture books, and this week we have twelve 2020 board books! All of these[…]
Read moreIt looks like 2020 children’s picture books will cover a lot of topics, from the women’s suffrage movement to grandmothers[…]
Read more2019 marks a full year of reviewing books at Baby Librarians. Here are Jen and Margaret’s reflections, and their year[…]
Read moreThis post by me originally appeared on Book Riot, but I added a couple of board books here. Studies show[…]
Read moreBaby librarian Marian and her mama Margaret review the shareable holiday picture book Little Robin’s Christmas. Marian reviews Little Robin’s[…]
Read moreThis post originally appeared on Book Riot. Families can look like many things. When I was a child, children’s books[…]
Read moreBaby librarian Marian and her mommy Margaret review the very special and splendid picture book Saturday by Oge Mora. Marian[…]
Read moreWhile fewer November 2019 children’s books are coming out than in previous months, we still have some great books to[…]
Read moreWhile horror might not be the first genre you think of in terms of children’s literature, lots of ‘light’ horror[…]
Read moreBaby librarian Marian and her mommy Margaret review the happy happy board book My Heart Fills with Happiness by Monique[…]
Read moreHalloween is such an amazing experience for children and my favorite holiday. But how to explain what in the world’s[…]
Read moreIt’s been a year since Margaret, Jen, and their babies Marian and Tilly started Baby Librarians! And what a year[…]
Read moreWelcome to another baby book club! Today, Marian and Tilly will discuss the not so spooky modern classic Room on[…]
Read moreI’m a fairytale fiend. I have an extensive collection of fairy tales, I studied fairy tales in college and wrote[…]
Read moreBaby librarian Marian and her mommy Margaret review the poetic picture book A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating[…]
Read moreA recent study published in the American Economic Journal found that children who watched Sesame Street in 1969 typically performed[…]
Read moreWelcome to another baby book club! Today, Marian and Tilly discuss the cranky and colorful crayons in The Day the[…]
Read moreIndigenous People’s Day celebrates the native populations of North America in protest against the celebration of Christopher Columbus—a genocidal racist—on Columbus Day. So[…]
Read moreI love reading comics, from graphic novels to memoirs, and I enjoy reading children’s comics as much as the adult[…]
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