This month’s top picks for kids include something for every type of reader, from fans of Minecraft and Captain Underpants buffs to pranksters and diary keepers. These are the reads that will have young bookworms everywhere turning pages long past bedtime.
Children’s author Rick Riordan has singlehandedly reintroduced the gods and goddesses—in all their faults and glories—to a younger generation, using humor and a half-mortal hero to draw readers into an incredible mythological world. Classical tales of heroes and villains are the basis of modern storytelling, and young readers adore Riordan’s funny, inviting rewrites. Here are the Riordan books every […]
The best young readers’ books of 2014 take bookworms to places near and far, opening their eyes to both the universal nature of their own experience and the uniqueness of people throughout the world. They include the hilarious adventures of Greg Heffley and his family on a road trip gone wrong in Jeff Kinney’s The Long Haul, the heartfelt and humorous story of sibling relationships in Raina Telgemeier’s Sisters, and the personal portrait of a young woman who dared to make a difference in I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai.
Three years after the mammoth success (in every sense) of 1Q84, the newest work from Japanese literary superstar Haruki Murakami is finally available in English. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, which famously sold over a million copies the week it came out in Japan, drops the author’s trademarked mystical, metafictional, sometimes maddening […]
The Burning Maze, the third book in The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan, comes out Tuesday, May 1st! Yay! Here are five things I can’t wait to read about: The Labyrinth The Labyrinth, where much of this book is set, is one of the creepiest parts of the mythological world; it’s practically alive, and […]
