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The Book with No Pictures - A book for 5-to-8-year-old children. A book for 5-to-8-year-old children with no pictures. A book for 5-to-8-year-old children with no pictures by a writer who’s never written anything for children. And
A Child’s Holiday in America - These selections have the power to re-connect you to your childhood. Not the childhood you had, with its predictable dose of uncertainty and awkwardness, but the childhood you had in
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything - Until she was in fifth grade, our daughter drifted into sleep as her mother delivered a lecture that came to be known as “Bore Me to Sleep.” Our child was probably
A Wrinkle in Time - GUEST BUTLER MICHELLE WATKINS has been a Head Butler reader for so long she has two seats on the aisle for any movie or play I get produced. She and
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince - When Robin Williams died, my Facebook screen lit up with one quote after another from “The Little Prince.” I didn’t understand why so many people responded with lines from this book. And
Beatrice’s Goat - 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 a New York Times column
Beatrix Potter: The Tales of Peter Rabbit - More than a century after Beatrix Potter first began writing and illustrating stories featuring four rabbits, almost 200 million of her books have made their way into homes where small
Buzz - Press the photo of a mosquito on the cover, and there's that annoying whine. Press the bee, hear a buzz. The cricket chirps. Yes, I'd say
Charlotte’s Web - You all read “Charlotte’s Web” when you were 8. I didn’t. And because no one read it to me, my childhood ended without any knowledge of what seems to be
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 out some books that I could
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! - So there's this bus driver. With a small problem. "Hi!," he says. "I'm the bus driver. Listen, I've got to leave for a little while, so can you watch things for
Eloise - Actually, the title is “Kay Thompson’s Eloise” --- like a movie directed by a screen giant. Kay Thompson got her name above the title, as it
Fancy Nancy - Eloise doesn't translate to the new millennium. The Plaza's gone to hotel heaven; might we interest you in a condo? Anyway, a spoiled child terrorizing well-meaning
Five New Picture Books for Children, Spring 2017 - GUEST BUTLER BARBARA BOTTNER has written more than 40 books for children and teenagers. (For her Amazon Author Page, click here.] She’s won national awards and appeared on the
Flotsam - When the child was “four-and-a-half-and-three-quarters-but-in-my-head-I'm-seven,” boy, was she ready to read. Signs, newspaper headlines, the crawl on Fox News --- kidding about Fox News --- captivated
Gift Guide: A Child’s Holiday in America - Always on Christmas night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang "Cherry Ripe," and another uncle sang "Drake's Drum." It was very warm in the
I Want My Hat Back - 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 named “I
Learning Like a Girl - Learning Like a Girl:
Love You Forever - “A daughter is her father’s heart, walking away on feet.” Gospel truth. I live it every day. The Child you met in these pages a long, long time ago became The