WATERLOO — The kindergartners are listening intently to a story where a curious kitten leaps onto the kitchen countertop. Kimberly Brimm, a reading teacher at Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, ...

If you’re a parent, teacher, or librarian looking for the best 2nd books for 2nd graders (7 year olds) boys and girls, this chapter book list can help with recommendations of funny books to fantasy ...

Easy readers, Beginning Reader books, I Can Read books: These are all ways to describe the first books that our youngest patrons can read on their own (or with some help). When you have a patron at ...

This past year, I had the privilege of being a member of the 2013 (Theodore Seuss) Geisel Award Selection Committee. As stated by the American Library Assn. (ALA) website: “The Geisel Award is given ...

A shelf full of children’s books at the O’Fallon Public Library. Lynn Venhaus It’s Children’s Book Week, a twice-annual celebration of children’s books and the joy of reading, according to the website ...

It’s Children’s Book Week, a twice-annual celebration of children’s books and the joy of reading, according to the website of Every Child a Reader, the charity arm of the Children’s Book Council. To ...