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Disturbing the Universe: Books That Broke the Rules
Betsy Hearne and I have been colleagues for forty years, including working together for a decade at The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. Below, we discuss some landmark rule breakers from our collective memory. —R.S. ROGER SUTTON: So here we are: two longtime reviewers remembering books that broke...
Review of The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Talesby Shaun Tan; abridged and adapted from translations of Grimms’ fairy tales by Jack Zipes; sculptures and photos by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Levine/Scholastic
186 pp.10/16 978-0-545-94612-4 $24.99 gIn the hands of creative teachers, librarians, and parents, this book-lover’s book will find its...
Fifty Years of Novel Exploits
Harriet M. Welsch is celebrating her sixty-first birthday with a bottle of pinot noir. She’s wearing an expensive new pair of glasses, a splurge from the last royalty check. Her spy novel Secrets has gone viral, and she just signed a contract for the series. Reviews have hailed her detective...
Foreign Correspondence: New House on the Block: Private Children’s Libraries in China
After Taotao, a Chinese preschooler, paid a first visit to the public Capital Library in Beijing in 2010, the boy’s mother posted an entry to her blog: “There are not many picture books in the library. More are for older kids. The hardest part for me to accept is that...
Disney Revisited, Or, Jiminy Cricket, It’s Musty Down Here!
I call him to account for his debasement of the traditional literature of childhood, in films and in the books he publishes:He shows scant respect for the integrity of the original creations of authors, manipulating and vulgarizing everything for his own ends. His treatment of folklore is without regard for its anthropological, spiritual,...
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