The real superheroes

j_toysShared reading has made my child a Frog and Toad and George and Martha fan. Preschool has made him a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan. (Remember them, '80s kids? They're back.) In the absence of action figures, he uses his Lego animals as Ninja Turtles. The other day he was playing superheroes: "Here's Donatello, and Michelangelo, and Leonardo, and Raphael. And Arnold Lobel... And James Marshall..." Music to my ears.

 

 

 

 

Elissa Gershowitz

Elissa Gershowitz is editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc. She holds an MA from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons University and a BA from Oberlin College.

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