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Poignant Children’s Books Featuring Characters With Disabilities

Posted on December 3, 2019December 4, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

Children’s books play a pivotal role in shaping early thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions. Books that feature characters with disabilities help children with disabilities understand that having a disability, even though life-altering, needn’t make them feel any lesser; different maybe but not lesser! And NO! Books with characters who have disabilities are not for children with disabilities alone! It is a must-read for ALL children. When children read about the diverse characters – their disabilities, the strengths…

Hot off the press! A Comprehensive Guide to the Best Magazines for Children

Posted on November 28, 2019December 4, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

Magazines make great reading material for children. They are a great source of information and engagement and make learning fun! Kids can read about science, nature, and art while looking at beautiful photos of things, places, or animals they’ve never seen before and by playing games and completing activities. Magazines present content with language that is easy to read and understand and with plenty of illustrations. What’s more, they also provide opportunities for children to contribute to their…

Breaking News! A Quick Guide to the best Newspapers for Children

Posted on November 28, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

Reading the newspaper is one of the best habits, to not just be updated with the world around, but also to improve reading, analyzing and understanding skills. Getting children to read the newspaper each morning is an awesome way to get children interested in what’s happening around the world. But the problem is that the daily newspaper is filled with information, most of which cannot be processed by a child. A children’s newspaper is designed to…

Word Power! 15 Books that celebrate words

Posted on October 16, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

There are plenty of reasons to love a good book. Children often love books for gorgeous illustrations or for their humorous stories. The adventurous plot or characters may draw children to read as they relate to them. But have you imagined what would happen if a book instills a love for words themselves? Words and wordplay make readers love language, it inspires writing and helps kids learn new vocabulary. The readers may convert to an even more…

Bring the world to your children – A Guide to the best Atlases for Kids!

Posted on October 12, 2019October 13, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

The earlier a child begins to understand his or her place in this world, the better. The best way to start would be to show children maps. Maps are enchanting and children are often attracted to them. To children, they open up the possibility of an adventure in far-off places! They tell stories of places you may or may not have been to. In the current scenario, we do not use maps as we used…

Navaratri Reads – 9 Books that Celebrate Goddesses

Posted on October 8, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

Navratri – a nine-day festival dedicated to Goddesses The word Navaratri literally means nine nights in Sanskrit, Nava meaning nine and Ratri meaning nights. During these nine nights and ten days, nine forms of Goddess Shakti or Devi are worshiped. The beginning of spring and autumn are considered to be significant confluences of climatic and solar influences. That is why these two periods are taken as sacred opportunities for the worship of the Divine Mother Durga. Durga Puja, Navaratri, Dusshera, and Diwali are important Hindu…

9 Must Read Books authored by Peter H Reynolds

Posted on September 17, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

Peter H. Reynolds is an author and illustrator whose most famous books include The Dot, Ish and The North Star. His stories are simple, yet poignant and teach deep life lessons. His illustrations are mostly done with ink and watercolors. His picture books will inspire children to dream big and embrace the power of whimsy and imagination. His books tell stories that matter and challenge us to reach our full potential. Here is a list of our favorite 9 inspiring…

16 STEM Books that make Science and Technology fun for children

Posted on September 15, 2019September 15, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering, and math — are a crucial part of a child’s education both now and in the future. Books on STEM offer endless opportunities for engaged learning. They invite children to see the world differently and to think in new ways about what they observe. They also help by celebrating convergent and divergent thinking, analysis and creativity, persistence, and the sheer joy of figuring things out. Here is a list of books to help you involve even the youngest children in the process of STEM thinking, spark excitement, teach something new, and make STEM accessible to your children.

10 Books to help you get started with Hands-on STEM

Posted on September 15, 2019September 15, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

Here are a few Hands-on STEM Books to help you inspire your kids to engineer, create, design, explore and build the unimaginable. These books are filled with great stories, Hands-on activities, experiments and cool project ideas that can help lay a foundation for any mixture of STEM disciplines.

#Chandrayaan2 – 12 Books about Moon for Children

Posted on July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 by The Rabbit Hole Children's Bookstore

Here, we have put together a collection of books about moon for them to explore. Not only can kids learn actual facts about the moon, but the fiction books help kids use those facts to stretch their imaginations! These books are a perfect addition to any lesson on astronomy – particularly the moon – for kids!