Childrens Books
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Why Children’s Books? January 31, 2025
In 1803, Samuel Taylor Coleridge sat in his astronomer’s study in Keswick, and wrote in his notebook his central Principle of Criticism:never to lose an opportunity of reasoning against the head-dimming, heart-damping principle of judging a work by ...
REVIEW: Books for Children July 17, 2024
The sun rises. I feed the baby. If I’m lucky and he’s still tired, I put him back to sleep. I hear a voice from my toddler’s room. After getting dressed and pouring milk and saying a prayer and pushing the button on the coffeemaker, it’s time for the...
The Grotesque Truth About Children July 12, 2024
“When I started writing books for children, I knew what interested me,” Daniel Handler writes early on in his new memoir And Then? And Then? What Else?. “Terrible things happening, like in all the best literature.” Now there’s a man who understands h...
