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Mr. Sandman: Fear of the Dark app review

March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Mr. Sandman menu screen

Mr. Sandman: Fear of the Dark (August 2012), the debut storybook app from French developer Hocusbookus, is one of the most arresting examples of digital application technology I have ever seen. The combination of intricately layered backgrounds (clearly influenced by shadow puppetry aesthetics), deep nighttime colors, an eerie musical underscore, and interactive elements breathes life [...]

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Seriously, what the fuck is the point?

December 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
Seriously

  Akashic Books is releasing a “children’s version” of Go the Fuck to Sleep. So now parents can harangue their children to sleep for realz.

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>I hope the book is as good as its cover

April 25, 2011 By 8 Comments

> Coming this October from Akashic Books.

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>One scary mutha

January 13, 2009 By 5 Comments

>I can’t remember how to link from within comments but yesterday’s post about over-controlling caregivers reminded me of Lucy Lane Clifford’s 1882 “The New Mother,” which I instruct you to read before bedtime: “If we were very, very, very naughty, and wouldn’t be good, what then?” Then,” said the mother sadly–and while she spoke her [...]

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>I don’t need a story tonight, but thanks.

January 12, 2009 By 17 Comments

>The New York Times has picked up on the story about British mums and dads disdaining fairytales. The Times reporter adds a concern of her own: “My own question about these tales — Brother Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Disney (original and adapted) — has always been: where are the mothers?” I would tell her but [...]

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>Practicing for grandchildren

November 16, 2008 By 2 Comments

> Mads seemed content and Julia politely waiting until we got to something with princesses in it.

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>This made me go all teary

February 18, 2008 By 9 Comments

>Watch the clip.

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>Oh, Santa, Please, Please, Please!

December 15, 2007 By 2 Comments

> I told you Martha and I were writing a book, but apparently somebody, um, beat us to it. More than a century ago.

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>Phone Call to the Past

November 9, 2007 By 5 Comments

>Pursuant to my recent post about sequels, I see from A Chair, A Fireplace and a Tea Cozy that not only are Ellen Emerson White’s old books about The President’s Daughter being republished, she’s rewriting them to bring them in line with the most recent book, Long May She Reign, which is set in the [...]

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>Snuggle Up

October 2, 2007 By 3 Comments

>Claire has compiled a list of recommended bedtime stories perfect for these cooling nights. Allow me to add one–Jonathan Bean’s At Night (FSG), which received a starred review from Jennifer Brabander in the September/October issue but whose perfection I only realized when I read it aloud in Vermont last week.

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