When I was a girl growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, certain things were a given: You always had a scrunchie either in your hair or on your wrist, there was a troll doll somewhere in your room and a Tamogotchi attached to either your backpack or your mini-backpack purse (at least until your school banned […]
Like many of you reading this, in elementary through middle school I was totally obsessed with The Baby-Sitters Club books. I would stay up late reading them under my covers with a flashlight because I could not put them down. My friends and I would trade them so we could get our hands on every […]
We’re entering a second Golden Age of comic books, folks, and that can only mean good things for children’s fiction. An overwhelming amount of scientific evidence says that comics can help increase vocabulary skills and spark a love of reading in young children. What’s more, some of the best new comics being published today are aimed […]
Everyone has their comfort reading material. For interminably 13-year-old Claudia Kishi, it’s Nancy Drew books, stashed all over her room. For me—and other ’80s and ’90s kids and their nostalgia-loving offspring—it’s Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club. And even though no new BSC books are currently being published, there’s still plenty of material to choose […]
