We New Yorkers enjoy the privilege of being near wonderful independent bookstores. The owners organize book programs to inspire, entertain, and honor the splendid authors and illustrators of the children’s book world. These author/illustrator events Read more…
Trisomy 18 Awareness Month and Books for Developmentally Disabled Babies This is a little shout out to someone special to me, and to all who may also be raising little ones with special needs. I married Read more…
Diane Dillon has created a truly wonderful picture book I Can Be Anything, Don’t Tell Me I Can’t. ‘This book is dedicated to discouraging the frightened, negative little voice in our heads that keeps us Read more…
Barbershop Books created a brilliant, simple, direct and effective reading program. It was awarded the coveted National Book Foundation’s Innovations Prize in 2017. Boys are often happy to read with family and teachers until a Read more…
Jane Yolen, one of our most prolific and splendid contemporary writers, has now published 365 books. So, of course, she has come out with a Book-A-Day Calendar. Each title links somehow to the date it’s Read more…
This is a curious article to note. When KJ Dell’Antonia, Rachel Payne and I edited our book for Sourcebooks in 2013 we made sure the books recommended were in print, available to purchase, or in Read more…
Our child stars filmed for the Reading With Babies videos are now teens. Do you remember crawling baby girls whose mothers spoke to them in Russian? Or the scene in which a baby gives her Read more…
Now and FOREVER there is a USPS STAMP of images from The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Just look: Deborah Pope, the irrepressibly enthusiastic Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, managed to Read more…
For 25 years I worked to empower and encourage young mothers to read to their children. That work has directly inspired what I’m doing here at Reading with Babies. Here’s a little history of the Read more…