For Those About to Mock

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle," said someone or other ( probably Ian McLaren and not Plato. ) Whoever ...

Walter D. Edmonds won the Newbery in 1942, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1960, and the National Book Award in 1976, but these days, he...

Christopher Paul Curtis is angry. He's angry about the suffering that Americans experienced during the Great Depression - especially the...

It's hard to be average when other people are exceptional. That's not only the subject of Remarkable , Lizzie K. Foley's debut n...

Meindert DeJong is kind of an interesting figure in the history of American children's literature. He was the undisputed rock star of ch...

Fairly or unfairly, I think we often judge a book by a familiar author by different standards than we do one by someone unfamiliar. We may ...

You can think of it as the jumbo-sized version of "let's put on a play and save the old school" -- let's put on a summer...