{"id":4842,"date":"2014-12-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2014-12-04T11:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:29:38","slug":"take-kids-to-the-bookstore-day-is-today-were-all-kids-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4842","title":{"rendered":"Take Kids to the Bookstore Day is today! (we’re all kids, right?)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is designated “Take Kids to the Bookstore Day” (well, officially “Take Your Child to the Bookstore Day” it says here<\/a>, but I believe in arriving at book palaces en masse), so bring kiddos to your favorite bricks-and-mortar bookstore for a great Saturday outing (find your nearest independent bookseller using IndieBound search)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And what books should you point out to kids? Help young readers take www.abookandahug’s What Reading SuperHero Are You? short quiz<\/a>, then discover new favorites tagged by their reader-type (or keyword or age) among the 7,000+ librarian-created reviews of books for babies, kids, tweens, and teens to start their own wishlists (I have over 300 posted there<\/a> – search Manck).<\/p>\n

If you’re heading for the bookstore alone to buy for kids, try Who’s On First<\/em>\u00a0 for anyone who loves baseball or funny books (my review here<\/a>), Cornelia Funke’s Ghost Knight\u00a0 <\/em>for tweens hooked on mysteries or the medieval (review here<\/a>), and Dave Roman’s Astronaut Academy series of graphic novels – Zero Gravity<\/em>\u00a0 (review<\/a>) and Re-Entry<\/em>\u00a0 (review<\/a>) – for the reader who’d enjoy Hakata’s classes in dinosaur-riding and fireball tournaments in space school.<\/p>\n

Amid the holiday shopping frenzy of keyboard-clacking and mouse-clicking, please shop at the physical bookstores that bring authors to our own towns, plan fun events for all ages, and give us an opportunity to find that book we didn’t know we were looking for. Remember that BooksYALove always seeks out great YA books beyond the bestsellers for you (and never has ads or affiliate links).<\/p>\n

Wishing you book serendipity all year!
\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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