Guides
Reading to Your Baby: When to Start and What to Read
Reading to your baby from birth — what your baby can do at each age, what to read month by month, the best books for babies, and how to read to a newborn.
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Ideas & guides for storybook families
Practical guides on personalized children’s books — choosing a gift a child actually keeps, the right story for their age, and what happens between a photo and a printed page.
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GuidesHanukkah Books for Kids: Eight Books for Eight Nights
Eight Hanukkah books for kids, one per night, from a baby's lift-the-flap to a Caldecott Honor ghost story, with ages, formats and which ones tell the Maccabee story.
10 min read
GuidesBooks Like The Giving Tree — Sorted by What You Actually Wanted From It
Eleven picture books for readers of The Giving Tree, grouped by what you wanted: the unconditional love, the ache of growing up, or giving that goes both ways.
12 min read
GiftsThanksgiving Books for Preschoolers: Being Thankful, and the Books That Aren't About That
Thanksgiving books for preschoolers, split by what they are really about — gratitude, turkeys or history — with years, formats and how each reads aloud.
11 min read
GuidesChildren's Christmas Books: 10 That Last Past One December
Ten children's Christmas books chosen for how they are really used — read hard for four weeks, boxed for eleven months — and the age each one lands at.
12 min read
GuidesBooks Like Guess How Much I Love You — 6 Next Reads
Six books to read after Guess How Much I Love You, chosen by which part your child is asking for: the measuring game, the going-away, or the settling down.
9 min read
GiftsPersonalized Book for Grandma or Grandpa, From a Grandchild
A personalized book for Grandma or Grandpa that paints them beside their grandchild — what to write, why it beats a photo gift, and a real book to read.
7 min read
GiftsFirst Birthday Book Gift: What to Buy and What to Write
A first birthday book gift is really for the next three years, not the day. What to buy so it survives, what to write in it, and which nine books earn it.
13 min read
GiftsA Personalized Christmas Book for Kids, Ordered in Time
A personalized Christmas book for kids that lasts past January — honest ordering dates, what to put in the story, and a finished family Christmas book.
7 min read
GiftsA Personalized Book as a Gift: Christmas, Birthdays & More
Why a book starring your child beats another toy — with honest timing advice for Christmas, birthdays, new siblings, grandparents and favourite aunts.
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Every article
The whole journal on one page — 88 guides, sorted by section.
Guides
- First Day of Preschool: A Parent's Guide to Getting Ready
- Books About Confidence for Kids: 12 Picks That Build It
- Books About School Anxiety: 12 Picks for Worried Kids
- Reading to Your Baby: When to Start and What to Read
- Books About Picky Eaters: 12 Picks and What Actually Helps
- How to Teach Your Child to Read at Home: A Parent's Guide
- Books for Language Development: 14 Picks for Toddlers
- Books About Sharing: 12 Picks and How to Teach Kids to Share
- Books About Separation Anxiety: 11 Picks for Drop-Off Tears
- Books About Tantrums: 16 Picks for Toddlers and Parents
- My Child Hates Reading: 12 Ways to Make Books Fun Again
- Books About Twins for Kids, Sorted by Same or Different
- Books About Friendship for Kids, Sorted by the Friendship Problem
- Books About Becoming a Big Sister: 7 Picks by How She Feels
- Hanukkah Books for Kids: Eight Books for Eight Nights
- Books About Emotions for Preschoolers: 10 That Help
- Dialogic Reading: How to Talk About a Story With Your Child
- Why Toddlers Want the Same Book Over and Over
- Books Like Pete the Cat — Split by Whether You Wanted the Song or the Shrug
- Books Like The Giving Tree — Sorted by What You Actually Wanted From It
- Books Like Elephant & Piggie, Ordered by How Much Harder They Are
- Children's Christmas Books: 10 That Last Past One December
- Read-Aloud Books for Kindergarten: 10 That Hold a Room
- Potty Training Books: 14 Picks for Toddlers and Parents
- Books Like The Rainbow Fish — 9 That Get Sharing Right
- Books Like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom — 9 Next Reads
- Books About Becoming a Big Brother: 15 Picks by Age
- Books Like Guess How Much I Love You — 6 Next Reads
- Personalized Picture Book With Your Child Painted In
- Books Like Where the Wild Things Are: 10 Next Reads
- Best Books for 2-Year-Olds: Board Book or Picture Book?
- Books Like The Gruffalo — 10 Next Reads
- Benefits of Personalized Books: What Brain Science Shows
- Books Like Brown Bear, Brown Bear — 10 Next Reads
- Best Books for 3-Year-Olds, Chosen by What They Say
- Best Books for 4-Year-Olds, Chosen by What's New at Four
- Books That Teach Colors — What Works at Two and Three
- Books Like The Very Hungry Caterpillar — 10 Next Reads
- The Best Children's Books of All Time, by Age
- 9 Art Styles for a Personalized Children's Book
Gifts
- Christmas Messages for Kids: 140 Short Wishes to Write
- Thanksgiving Books for Preschoolers: Being Thankful, and the Books That Aren't About That
- Halloween Books for Preschoolers, Sorted by How Scary They Actually Are
- Personalized Book for Grandma or Grandpa, From a Grandchild
- Personalized Newborn Book: A Gift That Grows Into Them
- Personalized Father's Day Book, With Dad Drawn In
- First Birthday Book Gift: What to Buy and What to Write
- A Personalized Christmas Book for Kids, Ordered in Time
- A Personalized Dinosaur Book for a Child Who Knows More Than You
- A Personalized Book With Your Own Dog In It
- A Personalized Princess Book Where She Is the Princess
- A Personalized Book for Dad, From the Kids
- A Personalized Book as a Gift: Christmas, Birthdays & More
- The Book Grandparents Give — and End Up Inside
- Why a Personalized Book Is the Birthday Gift a Child Actually Keeps
Family
- Baby's First Christmas Messages: 110 Wishes to Write
- Christmas Messages for Grandson & Granddaughter: 125 Ideas
- Christmas Messages for Family: 130 Card Wishes to Write
- Christmas Messages for Son and Daughter: 120 Ideas
- Personalized Big Brother Book for a New Baby
- Books About Kindness for Kids, Sorted by Situation
- First Day of School Books, by Which First Day It Is
- Books About Feelings for Toddlers: When to Read Them
- Books About Starting Kindergarten, and When to Read Them
- A Book for a Child Starting School — Why It Helps, and How to Make One About Your Child
- A Book About Becoming a Big Brother or Sister
Bedtime
- Toddler Bedtime Routine: A Calm 30-Minute Plan That Works
- Bedtime Stories for Kids: 6 Short Stories for Ages 3 to 5
- Christmas Bedtime Stories: 6 Short Stories to Read Aloud
- How to Make a Bedtime Storybook: 6 Steps
- Books Like Goodnight Moon — 11 Calm Bedtime Reads
- Personalized Storybook for Bedtime: Built From One Wish
- When Your Child Is the Hero — Why Kids Love Stories Starring Themselves