By Gretchen Rubin

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or List Day.
This Wednesday: Some reading suggestions in children's and young-adult literature.

I've written many times about my love for children's and young-adult literature, and my three kidlit reading groups. A source of great happiness for me! Be Gretchen.

For some reason, in the last few weeks, I've seen a spike in requests for suggestions about how to start a group or about what books to read.

As for starting a group, you can adapt the suggestions from the starter kit for starting Happiness Project groups. The specific model followed by my three kidlit groups is: we take turns meeting for dinner at each other's apartments; we meet every six weeks; we read one or two books for discussion; people can attend even if they haven't... More...