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Book cover titled The Elephant and the Piano showing a child playing piano for an elephant in a colorful forest.

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Sharing Music

May 1, 2026

COLETTE HILLER is a writer and an actress. She loves sharing stories. Her latest book, The Elephant and the Piano, is based on real events. It’s about a lonely elephant named Bonti and a man named Paul who plays music…

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The cover of the book "Search for a Giant Squid". It has illustrations of sea life connected by colorful arrows on a black background.

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Summer Reads

April 24, 2026

Dive deep on a squid search. Go to school with a fishboy. Find the perfect pet with Penelope. TFK has made a list of cool new books. Which will you read first? Search for a Giant Squid Choose your own…

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A book cover for Others shows two children looking up at a green wall, next to a photo of the author.

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Climb Over

March 19, 2026

KOBI YAMADA is a best-selling author. In his new book, Others, two boys stand at a tall hedge. It divides them from the people on the other side. The people are unfamiliar. One boy imagines how different they must be.…

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On the left, the cover of the book, Two Artists, Grandad and Me. On the right, a smiling woman with curly hair. A TFK Kid Reporter badge is in the top right corner.

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Family Artists

February 5, 2026

You’ve probably read a book by author and illustrator Jerry Pinkney. He wrote more than a hundred of them. Now his granddaughter has written one about him. CHARNELLE PINKNEY BARLOW is an author and illustrator, too. Her book is called…

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A colorful image showing the book All the Stars in the Sky by Art Coulson, illustrated by Winona Nelson. The cover art features a child and an elder holding hands under a starry sky decorated with constellations and bead-like designs. Next to the book is a circular photo of the author smiling, with a TIME for Kids “Kid Reporter” badge in the corner.

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Brighter Together

November 5, 2025

In All the Stars in the Sky, Clay can’t wait to be the star of the week. He thinks that will make him the most important person in the school. Then his elisi, or grandma, teaches him that he’ll never…

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Rooms to Explore

October 8, 2025

If you need space for small things, like insects, and big things, like dinosaur bones, what building do you need? That is one question in Rebecca Donnelly’s What’s That Building? The book gets readers thinking about architecture. They learn by…

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Homemade Pals

September 10, 2025

Tomasso is new at school. He has trouble finding friends. So he makes some, instead. There is a ball named Roland. And a milk carton called Coco. That is the story of Make New Friends, by Joshua David Stein. …

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Thinking Differently

September 10, 2025

Lynda Mullaly Hunt has a new book out called Wish in a Tree. Its main character is Oliver. His brain works differently from his classmates’ brains. He wishes he were like everybody else. But he learns to love himself. Hunt…

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Making Magic

August 29, 2025

Imagine traveling back and forth in time. Where would you go? Would you visit ancient Egypt? Would you walk on the moon? In the Magic Tree House books, anything is possible. TIME for Kids spoke with Mary Pope Osborne, the…

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A Trip to the Moon

August 29, 2025

A new Magic Tree House book is out this month. It is a graphic novel version of one of Osborne’s early books. The book is called Midnight on the Moon. The original was published in 1996. In the book,…

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