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Parents & Children

When a Child Doesn't Like Reading, Start by Stopping

When a child doesn't like reading, the instinct is to add things: charts, rewards, rules. The kinder place to start is the opposite. What to stop doing first, and why it works better than one more plan.

2 min read

Parents & Children

Reading with children is rarely only about books.

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Reading Life

Our odd, changing, lifelong relationship with reading itself.

Books & Reviews

Reviews with a point of view: what a book understands about people, and what didn't work.

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From The Keeper Chronicles

Notes from the author's own series: Solmerith, the books, and what's coming next.

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Parents & Children

Nobody Called It the Slow Group. Every Child Knew Anyway.

Every classroom has one: the reading group nobody names and every child can point to. This is for the children at that table, and for the parents wondering whether theirs is one of them.

2 min read · 9 August 2026
Parents & Children

5 Ways to Help a Reluctant Reader Finish a Book

A mystery instead of a chapter, a line to stop on, a ritual instead of an assignment, and two more ideas. Written from a writer's side of the page, for parents who want a reluctant reader to reach the last one.

2 min read · 30 July 2026

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