Here for the moments before bedtime

There are roughly thirty thousand children's books published every year. Most library displays show you about nine of them. Somewhere in that gap is the book your kid will ask for every single night for a month, and you will probably never find it by accident.

So we do the finding. Every week we read a stack of new and old children's books, argue about them, read the shortlist aloud to actual children, and send you the ones that won. Along with the list comes the stuff that makes reading together easier: which voice to do for the grumpy badger, where to pause so a three-year-old can guess what happens next, and one activity for afterward that uses things you already own.

The goal is not to raise kids who have read a lot of books. It is to raise kids who reach for one on their own.

What you actually get

One email, every Tuesday morning. In it: a curated list of seven books gathered around a theme, one honest sentence on each explaining why it earns its place, library call number tips, backups for when a title is popular, read-aloud guidance, and one activity. That is the whole thing.

We send the list, not the books

This matters, so we will say it plainly. Tiny Readers Book Club is not a subscription box. Nothing arrives on your doorstep and there is nothing to cancel. We send a beautifully put-together list of books worth reading with your children, and you decide what to do with it. Most families walk into their local library with it. Some buy the ones their kids refuse to give back. Both are the right answer.

It also means we are free to recommend the best book rather than whichever book we happen to have in a warehouse.

Who is behind it

We are a family of six. Two parents, four kids under eight, and a house where the picture books have long since outgrown the shelf we bought for them.

This started as our own problem. Four children at four different stages means four different answers to "what should we read tonight," and the library has thirty thousand options and no opinion. So we started keeping notes on what actually worked, and the notes turned into a list, and the list turned into this.

Say hello any time and one of us will answer.