Children Archives
Beatrice's Goat, Page McBrier - Beatrice Biira's story was turned into a children's book, and she was featured on “60 Minutes”, but I knew nothing about her until I read
Big Fat Little Lit, edited by Art Spiegelman & Fran -     Big Fat Little Lit Art Spiegelman & Fran
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell - The last book Ludwig Wittgenstein read --- the book he read as he lay dying --- was 'Black Beauty.' I have always wondered why. Wittgenstein was argua
Buzz, Caroline Bingham, Ben Morgan and Matthew Robertson - Press the photo of a mosquito on the cover, and there's that annoying whine. Press the bee, hear a buzz. The cricket chirps.
Curious George - There was no school on Martin Luther King's birthday, so I asked our daughter --- age “four-and-a-half-and-three-quarters” --- to pick o
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Mo Willems - So there's this bus driver. With a small problem. "Hi!," he says. "I'm the bus driver.
Eloise, Kay Thompson - Actually, the title is “Kay Thompson’s Eloise” --- like a movie directed by a screen giant.
Fancy Nancy, Jane O'Connor - Eloise doesn't translate to the new millennium. The Plaza's gone to hotel heaven; might we interest you in a condo?
Flotsam, David Wiesner - When the little one was “four-and-a-half-and-three-quarters-but-in-my-head-I'm-seven,” boy, wass she ready to read.
I Want My Hat Back, Jon Klassen - There’s a big fight raging over a very small --- 120 words, 40 pages --- book for kids. Some people say --- along with the New York Times, which
Learning Like a Girl, Diana Meehan -   Learning Like a Girl: Educating Our Daughters in Schools of Their Own Diana Meehan Our daughter --- more beautiful than her fathe
Roald Dahl - Kids who are not hunkering down with Harry Potter could do much worse than begin any of the four books in the Roald Dahl gift set. Dahl's books appeal
Robert Sabuda - When Robert Sabuda was growing up in a small rural town in Michigan, his mother would read him bedtime stories.
Shel Silverstein - “Every Thing On It,” published eleven years after Shel Silverstein’s death, arrived yesterday. Homework was instantly abandoned
Taro Gomi - “The most boring field of all is art,” says Taro Gomi, the Japanese artist who has illustrated about 300 books.
The 13 Clocks, James Thurber - The younger generation has no idea who he was, but once upon a time, James Thurber was a god.
The Adventures of Polo, Regis Faller - We've been reading to the little one all her young life, so Flotsam was a huge hit. At last! A book that she could read to us.
The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden - The Dangerous Book for Boys Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden     I saw a mother at a playground shouting at her
The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity --- Challenge the World Around You!, Tom Robinson - It’s summer, and because it’s important that our kids help us in the fields… Oooops. Sorry. That was a while ago.
The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes - When she was young --- this was almost a century ago --- Eleanor Estes went to school with a Polish girl who was so poor that she wore the same dres