I am quite sure that The Secret at Solaire , is not the only Nancy Drew book I read in childhood, but it was the only one I could remember...

Betsy-Tacy is a 1940 children's novel written by Maud Hart Lovelace and illustrated by Lois Lenski. The main characters are two litt...

This chapter book series by Claudia Mills has as its central character a fourth grader named Mason Dixon. Besides having a name that is al...

The most important component of a chapter book is a strong voice. Characters who sound like kids, or who speak to kids in their language...

The first key aspect of a successful easy reader is well-written text. The writing must be both easy enough for its audience to read, an...

Cheaper by the Dozen is the 1948 memoir of Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, who, along with their 10 other siblin...

Though it has probably been twenty years, I still think of Jolly Old Santa Claus as a "new" addition to my family's Christm...