My daughter used to hide under her desk. Every morning before school. She would not come out. She said her stomach hurt. She said she felt sick. But she was…
Last Tuesday my daughter looked up from her book and said "I know who took the necklace." She was reading a mystery. I was reading the same book to her…
You have a ten year old at home. That child reads faster than you think. School books finish in one sitting. Library books feel too simple. The stories end before…
The great struggle for any artist — any great artist, anyway — is a philosophical skirmish in the context of a much larger war. Why should this story or song…
WHAT COLOR IS NIGHT? Image Credit...From \"What Color Is Night?\" By Grant Snider “Look closer,” this gentle bedtime book encourages. While nighttime might seem to be only black and white, there is color to…
Sometimes I, a full-grown adult, see a so-called lift-the-flap book, meant for babies and toddlers, and become almost tingly with the desire to feel those cardboard tabs under my fingers…
In a 2018 essay for Time magazine, the actress Gabrielle Union lamented Hollywood’s lack of imagination when it comes to casting people of color. Why, she asked, is it so…
I was always an avid reader, the kind of kid who’d wander through the library stacks, running my fingers along the hardcovers’ spines, judging them not by their covers but…
