Welcome

Joy and holiday wishes to you and yours from all the ReaderKidZ! We’ll see you here again in the New Year. – Ann, Debbie, Dianne, Nancy, Stephanie, Jeanette, and Kristen

Beginning on December 1st and running throughout the month, ReaderKidZ will offer exciting give-aways of wonderful books; a chance to win original artwork by illustrator Matt Faulkner; valuable essays, and book recommendations for the children in your life. Visit us every day to win a chance at such titles as Christmas Eve Goodnight by Doug… Read more »

“Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a tough battle.” Plato It’s never too soon for children to learn empathy: empathy for children who talk, or look, or sound different; empathy for children from different cultures and religions; children with special needs. So much depends on our children learning this. That’s what books do –… Read more »

It’s National Poetry Month and we’re pleased to welcome poet Kristine O’Connell George as our Author-In-Residence for the first half of April. In 1998, Kristine won the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Poetry and the International Reading Association/Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for, THE GREAT FROG RACE and Other Poems. Since this stunning debut,… Read more »

Books about history, science, customs, cultures, peoples of all types – the famous and the not-so – are just a few of the many nonfiction topics available for kids in bookstores and libraries today. This month, ReaderKidZ focuses on a handful of these for K-5 readers searching for facts, figures, information, and answers. We’re pleased… Read more »

There are few feelings more satisfying – to both young and old readers, alike – than meeting characters you come to regard as friends and can follow on their adventures in book after book after book. For younger readers, there’s the additional comfort of familiar language and plot that makes reading a series not only… Read more »

January 2011.  A shiny new month full of possibility. What better way to kick off the New Year than to feature a subject every kid knows something about: SPORTS. Whether team or individual, sports are all around us. On the soccer field. In the street. On the baseball diamond. At the local pond, skating rink,… Read more »