Every generation has its handful of children's books that become genuinely inescapable. You know them: the ones printed on ...

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Children’s books are bodies of work that thrive on specificity. With just the right use of humor, wit, and alliteration, authors like Theodor Seuss Geisel, Lewis Carroll, and Margaret Atwood, among ...

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Those innocent bedtime stories you lovingly read aloud night after night contained sophisticated adult themes that sailed right over young heads but spoke directly to your parental experiences and ...

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Banning controversial books is a coward’s act. Publishing controversial books can require great gobs of bravery. There was a time, before Ursula Nordstrom, when children’s books did not discuss race, ...

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I just recently had my first kid and he is now at the age where he absolutely has favorite books. I'll hold up two options and he smacks his little hand against one of them and proclaims joyously that ...