'It doesn’t take much time to make a big difference,' James Patterson writes in his new book, 'The #1 Dad Book'. He chatted with PEOPLE about why in an exclusive conversation.

My parents read to me every night and bought me preschool workbooks. But the effect “Sesame Street” had on me was distinct from anything they could do. IE 11 is not supported.

When they became parents, Dragons Love Tacos illustrator Daniel Salmieri and artist Sophia Haas noticed that they were ... noticing more. So they wrote Next to Me, their first kids' book together.

“Plenty of hugs for you and me”: 10 delightful books to read to kids with two moms. It can be hard to parse through the thousands of children's books to find the ones that work for your family.

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If you’d asked me in my twenties if I wanted children, I’d have told you “hell no.” But by my thirties, I’d softened. When my therapist asked me on a scale of one to hundred, how badly I ...