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Fight childhood obesity with Simply in Season Children's Cookbook. Simply in Season Children's Cookbook stresses "Fun with food from garden to table." Use it to encourage your children to eat healthy foods and fight childhood obesity.

Here are some annotated booklists and other resources that include stories about Islam and Muslims, books that promote peace and tolerance, and books that help children to cope with fear, separation and loss in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Learn about the resources that make The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children such an excellent reference book on children's literature. Resources include information about children's wordless books, picture books, story books, early reading books, middle reading books, and young adult (ya) books.

Children’s Picture Books – Author Barbara M. Joosse and artist Barbara Lavallee address the universal question asked by children across nations and cultures, “Papa, do you love me?” through a delightful new children’s picture book “Papa Do You Love Me?” “Papa Do You Love Me?” is the companion children’s picture book to “Mama, Do You Love Me,” also by Barbara M. Joosse and Barbara Lavallee, which sold more than one million copies. I recommend both of these children’s picture books.

"This Place I Know, Poems of Comfort" is a collection of poems that were originally gathered to read to York City schoolchildren after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and which have been illustrated by 18 well-known children's illustrators, including Kevin Hawkes, Elisa Kleven, Jill McElmurry, Peter Sis, William Steig, and Chris Raschka. I recommend this children's book of poetry for all in need of comfort.

As we remember 9/11/01, here are some children's books, articles, and online children's booklists and other resources that are related, directly or indirectly to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 that you (parents, teachers, children's librarians) and your children may find helpful; these include stories about Islam and Muslims, books that promote peace and tolerance, and books that help children cope with fear, separation and loss.

Educating yourself is the key if you are to ensure that your child doesn't become prejudiced and "Hate Hurts: How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice, A Guide for Adults and Children," from The Anti-Defamation League, is a good place to start.

Why did J.K. Rowling make Harry Potter an orphan? Did she have a personal reason or did Rowling just think making Harry Potter an orphan was a good plot device? Find out here.

The cover artwork for the Scholastic edition of cover artwork and the cover artwork for the Bloomsbury Publishing editions of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows are quite different. Compare the covers of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Learn all about a special Collector's Edition of Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, with an afterword by Wilder historian William Anderson, and another book, Laura Ingalls Wilder Country by William Anderson, a book that includes photographs and information on Little House and Wilder related museums and sites you can visit.