Back-to-school jitters may be creeping up on kids. The beginning of a new school year is challenging, especially when it comes to learning. Over the summer, many children lose the knowledge they acquired during the previous school year. Educational experts call this trend the summer slide. According to research, kids in grades 3 to 5 […]
Winter isn't just a time for cozy reads. After all, it is Mother Nature's season of great extremes. Cold, darkness, isolation: winter is a call for adventure and for taking ourselves to the limit. If not with expeditions to the arctic, then why not with stories? There is no shortage of high-tales, epic quests and […]
Halloween looms around the corner, and so does the promise of frightening tales. In this blog, we explore TPL's collection of scary (and not-so-scary) stories. We also ask: for all the tossing and turning at night, why are many children still drawn to scary things? Horror stories have been sprouting and wriggling from the collective […]