Kids aged five to 14 read less in their spare time than they did four years ago, according to a recent study – but a healthy 72.4% still like to read. How can we encourage children to keep reading?

In their spareness, novellas and short novels — I’m counting any story longer than about 80 pages and any novel shorter than about 200 — reward a word-by-word reading.

Readers who read a novel a month or more are well in the minority – 82% of Americans read 10 or fewer books in 2023, according to a YouGov poll. But in a busy, chronically online world, any ...

This is just a sampling of the titles in the Kids' Books section of Books We Love. Check out all of this year's selections, and stick around to browse picks from the last 11 years.

Books for Kids Starting Kindergarten Anxiety, making new friends, learning to share: These 12 titles will prepare young readers for whatever their first day of school may have in store.