I continue to revisit the books I loved as a child–and want to figure out what to keep and what to dispose of.
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Our Christmases Always Involved Books
Growing up, our Christmases were always filled with books. This Scott Bates poem captures the spirit.
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The Joys of Revisiting Childhood Favs
Among the joys of being a parent and grandparent is revisiting childhood books.
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Why We Love the Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss’s “Cat in the Hat” engages children the way Hollywood genre movies engage audiences–but offering titillating transgressive fantasies before hurriedly restoring order.
Sendak and Children’s Interior Worlds
Maurice Sendak knew how the honor the interiority of children.
An ABC of Children’s Books
As we enter the holiday season, you can expect a number of posts on children’s books. I have mentioned several times how one of my father’s great joys when we were growing up was reading us the books he had loved as a child. We got extra reading around the Christmas season. Here’s a poem […]
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Books Unleashed in Christmas Carrels
On this Christmas day, I want to acknowledge one of the greatest gifts I ever received from my parents: my love of reading. Both are voracious readers, and my father (Scott Bates) would read to me and my brothers every evening. This included, for each of us, both a story or chapter and a poem. […]
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