Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
Now that my baby, five-month-old Strawberry Shortcake, is sleeping through the night, I find myself embracing a bedtime storytime, something my older child and I had ceased to make a regular bedtime habit. I hadn’t realized how much I’ve missed it. Raisin and I have continued to read picture books every day, even though he
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.1 When I was home with my newborn baby (after previously working full time), I began to crave something mentally enriching. I started
I recently received a free copy of The Horn Book Magazine. The day it came in the mail I was quite excited: here was my magazine about books! Although I don’t often read modern fiction, The Horn Book Magazine is by children’s book authors and publishers, and it’s about the processes involved in writing for
I have more confidence in the dead than in the living. —William Hazlitt William Hazlitt was a contemporary of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, not to mention Jane Austen. He was considered one of the most important critics and essayists of the English language, although he is little read today (see Wikipedia). I love his
The figure of my study is round, and has no more bare wall than what is taken up by my table and chair; so that the remaining parts of the circle present me a view of all my books at once, set upon five rows of shelves round about me. … ’Tis there that I
When I handed Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt to my son after I read it to him in the library, he got a really big kid smile on his face and he held it close to him. It’s a small book, just right for little hands. But the pleasure comes from the interaction: my
I know I’m insane to think about another challenge when I’m already feeling overwhelmed. But I love the concept and the reading list for the Martel-Harper Challenge.
When I heard the concept of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (monologues given by medieval children), I thought it would be horribly boring. Monologues? I thought. What is fun about monologues? I thought children would be bored by these “Voices from a Medieval Village.” To my delight, I found Good Masters! Sweet
A few months ago, I read a version of Aesop’s Fables that I found online at Project Gutenberg, written and published in the early 1900s. I thought I’d read Aesop’s Fables. I was interested, then, to read in chapter two (“Ingenuity and Authority”) of Seth Lerer’s Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry
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