Book-A-Day Almanac
Discover the stories behind the children’s book classics and the new books on their way to becoming classics.
Audacious Kids: The Classic American Children’s Story
Adults, High SchoolDecember has been designated Read a New Book month, but my offering for the Almanac today, although first published in 1992 by Oxford University Press, has just been updated and rereleased this year. Although I know a handful of my readers picked up Jerry Griswold’s critical examination of some of our great American classics, Audacious […]
19th century, 20th CenturyFeatured on December 8
Listening for Madeleine
Adults, High School, Middle SchoolOn November 29 we celebrate the birth date of one of America’s most beloved authors. Madeleine L’Engle was born in 1918 and throughout her life faced many obstacles, including roughly twenty-seven rejections of the book that made her famous, A Wrinkle in Time. Her father was a troubled man—she frequently spoke of him in public […]
Award Winning, Family, New York, Newbery, WomenFeatured on November 29
Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss
Adults, High SchoolToday is National Comic Book Day. Certainly comic books and graphic novels have become the hottest commodity in children’s publishing in the last few years. Last year I looked at one of the towering historical figures in that world: Crockett Johnson and The Carrot Seed. If you are a fan of Crockett Johnson, then Philip […]
History, PoliticsFeatured on September 25
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