Chapter Book Activity Books

So I guess chapter books are the prime age group for activity books as well, because there sure are a lot of them. An article-load amount of them. Let’s look at as many as we can, shall we? The Books (For all these activities shown, you can right-click on them and open in a new […]

Mean Girls In Chapter Books

So I’ve done this before, but last time we weren’t so chapter book focused. It seems almost every chapter book features a mean girl eventually. If you read that past article, you’ll know we’re here to classify mean girls by commonly seen character traits: Mean, popular, perfect, preppy, rich, snooty, and conceited. Occasionally bonus traits, […]

15 Common Topics In Chapter Books

When writing for a specific age group, you want to be relatable. If you’re writing a chapter book series, you’re going to have to be relatable a lot. Can you cover ten topics? Twenty? Here’s a shortlist of fifteen common topics I’ve seen across different chapter books series. More importantly, we can see how each […]

Parents in Kidlit

This is the first article I’ve been requested to write. Don’t let that make you think this topic isn’t exciting, because it super is exciting. I went off about it in a critique group and had to pull myself back from ranting for hours. This article isn’t hours long though. Don’t worry, I kept it […]

Mean Girl Traits in Kitlit

I have a soft spot for Mean Girls. Not just the 2004 Lindsay Lohan flick, the character archetype. There’s just something about characters who have a grudge against everything, or at least the main character, that fascinates me. Who hurt them? How did they become this kind of person? Why doesn’t every book I read […]