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I read every Dahl book I could get my hands on as a kid, and here's my confession: Danny was the one I remembered least. At eight, I filed it under "the one with no magic in it" and went back to the witches and the giants. Nobody gets fl...
I made it 41 years without reading The Cricket in Times Square, which I can only assume was a filing error, because this book was sitting in every library I ever walked into as a kid and nobody handed it to me. I was busy with Dahl and C...
My daughter waited a full day after we read the school chapter, and then at dinner on a Wednesday, over noodles, she asked whether anyone can actually make Pippi go to school. I said the town gives it a shot. She said "but they can't mak...
E.B. White wrote three books for children. As a culture we handed one of them a permanent seat at the head of the table (correct), gave the mouse one a movie franchise, and then agreed to never mention the swan again. I would like to for...
Somewhere around night four, my daughter stopped me between chapters and asked whose land the little house was on. She asked it flatly, the way she asks everything, like an auditor requesting a receipt. And the honest answer is right the...
On Thursday morning there was a carrot on the kitchen counter with two fork holes in it. Nobody would claim it. I asked the room in general what happened to the carrot and my four-year-old, without looking up from his cereal, said "THE B...
One of my favorite parts of the movie "Elf".. actually scratch that. I'm a card-carrying Millennial. ALL of "Elf" is my favorite part. Do you know the part where they are introducing Buddy the Elf's dad Walter Hobbs to the viewers? They ...
Read the post →"Oh I would never read Junie B. Jones to my kids, she's such a bad influence!" If you are a parent of a 5+ child you've probably heard this before. Luckily I didn't hear it before I first started reading the Junie B. Jones series to my k...
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