> . . . to a prom, but I admire the way these authors proudly show off the ruffles and powder blue of youth.
>And no pink sneakers for you, young man
February 10, 2011 By 32 Comments
>Oprah’s pal Dr. Phil offers advice to a mother whose five-year-old son likes girls’ clothes and Barbies: “This is not a precursor to your son being gay,” explains Dr. Phil. He’ll know that in time, but this is not an indication of his sexual orientation. Dr. Phil tells Robby that she has a job to [...]
>I know this has happened before,
October 30, 2009 By 8 Comments
>I guess it wasn’t all candlelight and butter churns
June 22, 2009 By 5 Comments
>What did your 1970s look like?
April 7, 2009 By 1 Comment
>I’m weeding the Horn Book’s collection of professional, scholarly, and other adult books about children’s literature, and damned if I didn’t find a strange little trend. Along with the many out-of-date bibliographies and childhood reading memoirs by the foremothers (don’t worry, I’m keeping those) are lots of coffee table books devoted to the work of [...]
>Propp was a piker
March 26, 2009 By 1 Comment
>Books under wraps
March 13, 2009 By 7 Comments
