Hello Margaret, Goodnight Moon
The story of Margaret Wise Brown…
The story of Margaret Wise Brown…
The life of Margaret Wise Brown
The Moomins, and their gift of tolerance
Remembering the greatest band in the whole wide world
Life on the emotional edge, with the bear father and the mouse child
When life is a war game, you need friends to survive
Life (and love) is a dream shared, in Philippa Pearce’s classic novel
Ludwig Bemelmans had a few childhood scars of his own
How Disney (and others) teach children that living in a nice suburban home beats living free in the city
The Seven-Author Novel Seaton Point
Neil Gaiman’s brand of horror lite is aimed at parents, as much as kids
Madeleine L’Engle’s nutty politico-religious parable for children still has its admirers
Celebrating the author of Archer’s Goon, Howl’s Moving Castle etc.
Indians are people, too
Authors who write for children are people, too.
About the bond between animals and humans….
Murder, mutiny, class rebellion and a terrific teenage heroine
The owls are not what they seem, but the English stay true to type
Don’t ever break bread with the stranger on the black horse….
The waking is the hardest part
Did you betray your toys?
The duck that turned greed, envy and shameless self-promotion into an art form
Can genetically modified animals ever rejoin the natural world?
… until you seen an elephant fly
Looking out for number one
Home is not a place
Small people with big problems
The Red Scare of the 1950s helped create this hymn to perpetual motion.
The Moomins, and their gift of tolerance
Race stereotypes in children’s books
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