Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Child(ish) Reads

Weโ€™re ending the week with books for kids 0-10. Publishing categories fairly closely match up with age groups, so weโ€™re listing books by type this time. It also should go without saying that these should be physical books. We would hold off with eBooks until middle school, or when your kid can read on a device without it affecting their vision or attention.

Here are our book picks for 2024:

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Child(ish) Reads for Kids: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Happy Halloween!

For this edition of Child(ish) Reads, weโ€™re going into the ghost stories from our past. From my last trip to the used book store, I grabbed Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, In a Dark, Dark Room, and a handful of Goosebumps. Both of my girls like Halloween and spooky characters in picture books, but they have been particularly reluctant when it comes to scary reading and movies. So I wanted to try these on for size and see if they could turn the corner.

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