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Amber Williams

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Using stories as the basis for coding games encourages children to explore early computer programming principles in a fun and interactive way.

Expanding your family is a crazy yet wonderful time. Luckily, there are picture books for almost every situation that can help ease the transition for your little ones.

Summer is a great time for getting outside and exploring all the tiny creatures that surround us. Check out these activities and books to help you and your kids learn more about all the creepy crawlies hiding in plain sight!

Active kids love to run and explore the world around them. But how can you read a story when your kid is always on the move? 

The Winter Olympics may be happening in South Korea, but you can have your own olympics right in your living room!

Rashad "thaPoet" Rayford shares his reading list for those who wish to further explore activism and civil rights in literature.

Nashville may be known as Music City, but we also LOVE our professional sports – whether the boys have sticks, bats, or footballs, fans will turn out to cheer on our local teams.

In this country’s present political and cultural climate, there are some people who think it’s acceptable to discriminate against people who may be Muslim or from the Middle East. This, of course, is wrong. People are people, and they all deserve respect, safety, and understanding. The children's books below portray Muslims and the Middle East in the light they deserve: positive, honest, open, and respectful.

I often marvel at how amazing it is that we have letters from Civil War soldiers, store ledgers from the 1900s, and interviews with people that lived through the Great Depression.