Tag Archives: Children

My Childhood Love for Krauss/Sendak

By Robin Bates | Published: November 28, 2024

Ruth Krauss’s children’s literature, often illustrated by Sendak, recognized and empowered me as a child.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 9, 2024

Blake’s “Little Black Boy,” quoted by Lamott in her latest book, is a complex exploration of racism.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 26, 2023

Today being Hilaire Belloc’s birthday, I share one of his darkly comic “Cautionary Tales for Children.”

By Robin Bates | Published: August 10, 2022

In “School Boy,” the idea of going to school in summer appalls Blake. He’d be horrified at American start times.

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By Robin Bates | Published: March 1, 2022

More passages from Pearl’s “The Dante Club,” about the 19th Century’s love of poetry.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 28, 2021

My grandson is visiting, getting me to break out the old games my father loved.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 7, 2021

Hugging my grandchildren for the first time in over 18 months brought to mind Longfellow’s “Children’s Hour.”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2020

American poet Louise Glück, the latest Nobel literature laureate, explore existential questions in a personal way in “Mother and Child.”

By Robin Bates | Published: July 28, 2020

Jennifer Michael’s luminescent poem “Opening the Hand” describes how she first experienced the power of the sea.