I rarely cry over children’s books. I have cried repeatedly while reading Songs for Our Sons to my son. It’s something different every time. Let me tell you about them. The first time was the […]
I didn’t know what to expect from a Dekker family team-up. Now I don’t know if I want them to do anything else. That was one of the concluding lines of my review of the […]
The final volume in the Millie Maven trilogy picks up six days the completion of the trial in Millie Maven in the Golden Vial. This time there are no trials. This time is not a […]
The second Millie Maven book opens with Millie yet to discover her gift, but in possession of something much greater: a bronze medallion from the Great Teacher himself. It’s caused some consternation among some of […]
The first book in the Millie Maven trilogy introduces us to Millie. Millie is, like so many young people in these kinds of stories, an orphan with a strict, loveless caretaker. Mother—actually her aunt—has very […]
Brandon Stanton started off just as a guy with a camera in New York. He started asking people their stories. They shared them. He shared them with the world. Humans of New York has become […]
Identity formation begins even before birth, as children absorb who they are from those around them. In the first few hours after birth, they can tell one smell from another, one voice from another, one […]
The story of Deborah is beautiful, complex, and nuanced. Its story has been misused and abused, with Deborah being portrayed as only in her position because there were no competent men, with Barak being portrayed […]
I’ve started to write this paragraph three times and each time end up erasing it out of fear that I’ve not captured the essence of this book. Mexique is a children’s book, but it’s more […]
A lot of modern children’s books are brightly, flashy, rhyming, and intended to be read over and over and over again to the point of annoyance. Looking back to older children’s books, there seems to […]
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