The Bear’s Song: A new bedtime book for kids that I don’t mind reading over and over.

by Kate Etue | Books for Kids

I have a few non-negotiable criteria when I’m looking for a new bedtime book to read with my kids and The Bear’s Song by Benjamin Chaud exceeds my expectations on all counts. This book is my kids’ and my own current favorite bedtime story. The art is...

It’s World Cup time, and this new soccer book for kids is a winner.

by Christina Refford | Books for Kids

Everyone’s eyes are on World Cup soccer for the next month, and The Soccer Fence by Phil Bildner, a thought-provoking and hope-filled soccer book for kids set in the waning days of South African Apartheid, is perfect for reading breaks between games. The...

The Alexander Calder pop-up book that will make kids fall in love with art forever.

by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Kids

When a book gets your kids excited to read more, that’s about the most beautiful thing in the world. But when a book gets your kids excited to create too, it’s absolutely thrilling. And that’s just what happened when my girls discovered the...

The Crabtree book will make your kids laugh, make them think, possibly make them want to clean.

by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Kids

I don’t know about you, but when I pick up a kids’ book published by McSweeney’s McMullens, and endorsed by the likes of Maira Kalman, Lemony Snicket, and Patton Oswald, it’s a pretty good bet that I will need to bring it home immediately, hand...

The best board books for babies of 2013: Editors’ Best of 2013

by Cool Mom Team | Editors Best of the Year

To start 2014, we’re excited to feature the best board books for babies of 2013 that we fell in love with. Because honestly, our babies fell in love with them too. And not just because the cardboard covers taste delicious. If there’s ever one New...

A personalized Night Before Christmas book makes for a very special storytime

by Christina Refford | Books for Kids

Reading The Night Before Christmas is a holiday staple in our house, though this new personalized Night Before Christmas book for kids that stars one special child throughout the pages is sure to be the new Christmas favorite for years to come. Best of all? Though the...

Move over, Fancy Nancy. The Fairy Birds are here.

by Kate Etue | Kid Style

My daughter is at that sweet age where she’s still fascinated by all things “fancy,” which equals “grown-up” to her six-year-old mind. She loves a great fairy tale, but she’s getting a little tired of the damsels in distress. So...

From bridges to bicycles, we’ve found the best collection of bookends ever

by Delilah S. Dawson | Art + Decor

There’s no excuse in the world for boring bookends. And this shop is the end-all, be-all of bookends, with everything from animals to plants to robots.  Design Atelier Article is a Ukrainian artisan duo that creates super cool minimalist bookends in...

Cozy Classics reinvent board books. And classics. And totally dark baby gifts.

by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Kids

When I think of the perfect book gift for a brand new baby, Les Miserables doesn’t exactly spring to mind. Or does it? If you’ve got a literary family–or a lit lover raising the next generation of lit lovers–the Cozy Classics board books from...

A numbers book for kids who like animals. Or an animal book for kids who like numbers.

by Liz Gumbinner | Books for Kids

Now that my oldest is eight and reading full-on chapter books, it’s hard to find a kids’ book that will captivate her, her first-grade sister, and younger cousins who come to visit too. But that’s just what author Lola M. Schaefer manages to do in...