10 Books to Teach My Kids About Life

Growing up as an only child, I had a lot of time on my hands. Road trips were especially problematic, without a sibling to harass me or steal my food each time I gazed out the window. Fortunately, I loved to read, and spent many forays into America’s national parks in the back of my family’s Toyota, devouring any book I could get my hands on. In some ways, I learned just as much from the pages of these stories as I did from the towering mountains and flowing streams that loomed outside the car window.