Unlike Anything Else: John D. Fitzgerald’s “The Great Brain”
Visiting Utah reveals that it is a place unlike any other. Fittingly, one of Utah’s best-loved authors wrote a series of children’s […]
Books Worth Reading: An Introduction to Stoicism with Arnold Lobel’s “Grasshopper on the Road”
Arnold Lobel gave the world many beloved illustrated stories, including the “Frog and Toad” series, “Fables,” and the side-splitting hilarious “Mouse Tales.” […]
The Disorienting Fun and Magic of Storytelling in Carl Sandburg’s “Rootabaga Stories”
Who could forget Potato Face Blind Man, Hatrack the Horse, and, of course, Bozo the Button Buster who Busted All His Buttons […]
Delightful books featuring big families
Life with lots of children offers excitement. There is a unique energy and enthusiasm that can be unleashed in a tribe with […]
The Surprising and Important Lessons from Children’s Adventure Stories
Good children’s stories, new and old, have wide appeal. Adventure stories and tales of epic quests are no exception. Of course, there […]
Illustrators Who Offer Books of Beauty
With so many ugly books for children, finding books of real beauty is unlikely to happen regularly without intention. Thankfully, once you […]
Time and eternity in Astrid Lindgren’s “The Children of Noisy Village”
Astrid Lindgren’s memorable narrator, nine-year-old Lisa, in The Children of Noisy Village, conveys the childlike security of traditions. Lisa explains that Christmas […]
Grace Lin’s perfectly silly “Ling and Ting” series
There are great masterpieces of the written word and artistic expression worthy of veneration. There are also wonderfully fun books that provide […]
What stories of dignified mice can tell us about human dignity
Few creatures are as repulsive to urban sophisticates as the lowly mouse. Vectors of disease that rummage through our pantries and leave […]
Sydney Taylor’s “All-of-a-Kind Family” and the marvelous art of storytelling
Our culture continues to suffer severe confusion when it comes to stories. We are trapped in a hellish, post-modern landscape in which […]