Stock Up on Back to School Essentials

Back to school season is right around the corner! Start the school year off right with board and picture books to help young students beat the first-day jitters, activity books and gifts to add something special to their backpack, and bestselling graphic novels to continue building a lifelong love of reading! For older students heading

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Where Do You Poop?: A Potty Training Book Toddlers Will Sit For!

By Kerry McManus Potty training is a necessary – yet oftentimes frustrating – fact of parenthood. So why not ease the stress and make the experience fun for little ones? Where Do You Poop? by Agnese Baruzzi is a board book that toddlers will finally sit for! Filled with delightful detail and charming illustrations, this

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Celebrate Summerween with Out of Print!

Celebrate Summerween in bookish style with new playfully ghoulish designs from Out of Print! Add a spooky twist to your summer displays and invite Halloween lovers to get into the spirit early with these brand new styles featuring adorable ghosts, creepy vampire bats, and grinning jack-o-lanterns. Shop the latest drop, or stock up on your

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Beachy Books & Ocean Adventures: Splashy Reads for Kids

by Jaliza Burwell for Charlesbridge Summer means trips! And a perfect kid-friendly outing is a Seaside Stroll along the beach where children will learn all about words that start with S in a gentle, rhythmic poem. When they find an interesting shell, they’ll need Seashells: More Than a Home to help them identify their discovery

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Staff Picks + Upcoming Titles: July

Halloween came early this year! Our upcoming titles in July embody the trending Summerween vibe. Piece together a haunting scene based on classic gothic tales with The World of Edgar Allan Poe: A Conversation Puzzle, or pick up the creepy-cute Squid Game Official Journal for fun, frightening merch based on one of Netflix’s biggest series.

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Trendspotting: Classic Childhood Nostalgia

They’re not just for kids–the classic characters of our youth like Snoopy and Peter Rabbit are back in style! From Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie dominating the summer of 2023 to fashion and home decor brands launching collections based on childhood throwbacks like Little Golden Books, Beatrix Potter, and Richard Scarry, what’s old is new again

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Ghoulish Gifts for a Sunny, Scary Summerween

Why wait until October to celebrate all things spooky? With the growing Summerween trend, Halloween fans can indulge in their favorite holiday in the the middle of the year with jack-o’-melon carving, sparkling pumpkin punch, and slasher movie marathons! First introduced by the hit Disney show, Gravity Falls, where the local townspeople celebrate Summerween on

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Staff Picks + Upcoming Titles: June

June’s upcoming titles are full of can’t-miss pop culture moments! Relive Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour with refreshing, creative cocktails inspired by her greatest hits with The Eras Pour, then revisit the women that made the 2000s pop’s shiniest decade in Hit Girls. And kids can bring the movies home with Stitch titles like Birthday

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