One evening, a grandmother closed a book after reading about a bunny who learned to ask before taking carrots from a neighbor’s garden. Her grandson was already half asleep, but he opened one eye and whispered, “Next time I’ll ask...

“Just one more story.” It is a request that parents and grandparents hear almost every night. Even when little eyes grow sleepy, children are often excited to spend a few more minutes with their favorite storybook characters. As the first...

Family reading traditions are not built in a single night. They form slowly, through repeated rituals that children come to expect and eventually look forward to. MEMAW’S 20 Bed Time Stories with Animal Friends by Melanie Lewis was written with...

Teaching kindness to a young child is rarely effective through direct instruction alone. Most parents and educators know that lessons stick better when they are shown rather than told, which is exactly the approach Melanie Lewis takes in MEMAW’S 20...

Every grandmother has a story she wants to pass down, but few turn that instinct into twenty of them. Melanie Lewis, known affectionately to her family as Memaw, has done exactly that with MEMAW’S 20 Bed Time Stories with Animal...