Tag Archives: Dr. Seuss

Honoring Our Inner Wild Rumpus

By Robin Bates | Published: October 19, 2009

Illustration from Where the Wild Things Are I see that Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963) has been turned into a film, which has led Slate columnist Jack Shafer to revisit a controversy about the book. Apparently Sendak still can’t let go of a critique by psychologist Bruno Bettelheim. I was surprised to learn […]

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Prancing Poetry and a Child’s Imagination

By Robin Bates | Published: July 16, 2009

Last week I gave a list of my favorite children’s books when I was young. My father, who is a poet along with being a French professor, read us poetry as well as fiction (each night, one story or chapter and one poem for each of my three brothers and me), so I thought I’d […]

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Sendak and Dr. Seuss to the Rescue

By Robin Bates | Published: June 5, 2009

In my last entry I mentioned the key role that books can play in the lives of children. I’d like to follow that up here, officially adding the category of “children’s classics” to the “great literature” to which this website is devoted.There is artistry to many of the children’s stories that we remember fondly. When […]

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What Personal Reading Histories Tell Us

By Robin Bates | Published: June 4, 2009

I can’t recommend enough the value of writing your reading history. It will reveal to you sides of yourself you didn’t know you had.

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