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If Raymond Chandler wrote books for children, you might mistake Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty? for something penned by him. Instead, David Levinthal and John Nickel, have reinvented Philip Marlowe in the form of a tough talking […]
The New York Public Library has come out with a wonderful list of 100 children’s books that we should all read at some point in our lives. Whatever your child’s age, there is a book for her, such as Goodnight Moon or Harry Potter. The list doesn’t rank them (an impossible task), but simply offers them […]
Dwight Garner of The New York Times just shared his family’s favorite children’s books. I’ll have to admit, I haven’t read any of them. But I plan to now. His article reminds me what a personal thing books are. Different sorts of people will be attracted to different kinds of books. Garner writes […]
For the parent who has read aloud Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? for the thousandth time, the recent success of children’s book parodies affords a welcome respite. Representative books […]
On the New York Public Library’s blog, John Flood, asked an interesting question: “Are you a Max Person or a Peter Person?” He was of course referring to Max from Where the […]
To say that publishing is going through an upheaval is perhaps an understatement. But the movement from print to digital is not only changing the business models of book publishers, it is also changing what we actually read. When I first had The Kid I was looking forward to reading him some of my […]
We’ve known for a while that older kids get outside and play in nature less and less these days. In short, there is a nature deficit. But a new study in the journal Sociological Inquiry points out that this may start even earlier than we thought. Here is how Sara Novak described the situation in […]
Each year there is usually one book that changes how I see things and totally captivates me for the few days (or weeks) that it takes me to read it. 2011 has been particularly good in that I’ve found a book and a website that really are irreplaceable. The book, while not new, is […]
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