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Life Moments

Books for life's big transitions — and the small ones too.

The anticipation of a new baby brings out the full spectrum of big-kid feelings: excitement, jealousy, and the quietl…

Starting School

Starting school is one of the biggest transitions of early childhood.

Starting over at a new school is one of the harder social experiences childhood serves up.

Moving means leaving behind the familiar.

Parents Divorcing

When parents separate, children often carry feelings they don't have words for.

Death of a Loved One

Grief is not a problem to be solved, and the best children's books about death seem to understand that.

For many children, losing a pet is their first real encounter with death.

Being bullied is isolating in a specific way.

Friendship is one of childhood's most important projects and one of its least predictable.

Being Different

Every child feels like the odd one out sometimes.

When a child is sick, really sick, for more than a few days, the world shrinks.

Having a parent, grandparent, or sibling who is seriously ill changes the texture of daily life in ways children ofte…

Parent Deployment

When a parent is far away, whether on deployment, for work, or for treatment, children face a particular kind of miss…

Adoption & Foster Care

Every adopted and foster child's story is different, and the best books honor that difference.

Learning Disability

Children with learning differences often spend a lot of energy wondering why things that seem easy for others feel ha…

Neurodivergence

Neurodivergent children benefit enormously from seeing themselves in books.

Physical Disability

These books center children with physical disabilities as full, interesting people.

The experience of leaving one place and arriving in another, sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity, always with…

Cultural Identity

Books that reflect a child's cultural identity back to them, and that explore it with complexity and pride, do someth…

Financial Hardship

Economic difficulty is one of the most common and least-discussed experiences in children's lives, and books that add…

Natural Disaster

Fires, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes.

Growing up is the subject of almost every children's book, in one way or another.

First days carry enormous weight for children.

Sibling Rivalry

Siblings are the people who know you best and drive you most insane in equal measure.

The pressure to fit in, to go along, to be what other people want.

Potty training is one of toddlerhood's great projects, and having books that normalize and celebrate it is genuinely…

Visiting the Doctor

Medical appointments can be frightening for young children.

Losing a tooth is one of childhood's first experiences of the body changing in a visible, somewhat alarming way.

Camp means leaving home, missing family, and navigating a new social world all at once.

Grandparent Relationship

LGBTQ+ Families

LGBTQ+ Families

Incarcerated Parent

Single-Parent Home

Military Family

Starting a New Activity

First Sleepover

Learning to Swim

Becoming a Big Kid

Bedtime Struggles

Sharing with Siblings

Body Changes & Puberty

Going to the Dentist

Wearing Glasses

Making an Apology

Standing Up for Others

Navigating Social Media

Experiencing Racism

Gender Identity & Expression

LGBTQ+ Identity & Coming Out

Queer Joy & Queer Love

Homelessness & Housing

Welcoming a New Pet

Celebrating Heritage

Discovering a Talent