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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Child(ish) Reads: Article Review

Welcome to October!

We usually reserve this month for #spookyszn content. But our October calendars are looking a bitโ€ฆscary. So Child(ish) Advice will be keeping it light for this week, before heading into a much needed two-week break.

Todayโ€™s post is an article review, something we really havenโ€™t done since our first year blogging. This article came out in March, but it fit our Gen A theme/Halloween transition so perfectly. Check it out!

Kids Media Is In Its Villain Era by Katy Hershberger, Romper.com.

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Holiday Gift Guide 2023: Child(ish) Reads

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Holiday Gift Guide 2022: Child(ish) Reads

Welcome to our Child(ish) Reads Gift Guide!

A new installment from last year, this guide features our top kidsโ€™ books by age that are perfect for gifting.

Like we said last year, a good list for gift giving is:

1. Something they want
2. Something they need
3. Something they wear
4. Something they read

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