The Last Dance of the Tiger King: Kidlit Connections For Quarantine Times

I’ve been stuck inside too long, people. It’s bad. I can feel something stirring deep inside of me. I thought I’d buried it for good, but it’s no use. It’s coming to the surface and I just . . . can’t . . . stop it . . . .

IT’S TIME TO GET SILLY!!!!!!

Specifically, it’s time to find children’s literary connections to the times in which we live. And the times in which we live are weird. Buckle up.

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I Always Knew Living Without Pants Was the Better Way to Go

And Somehow the World Started Playing the Game Animal Crossing, Which As I Understand It, Is Apparently This . . .

Plus This (Am I Wrong?)

Books in this post include, in order, the following:

• Salt In His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan with Roslyn M. Jordan, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
• Michael’s Golden Rules by Deloris Jordan with Roslyn M. Jordan, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
• Dream Big: Michael Jordan and the Pursuit of Excellence by Deloris Jordan, illustrated by Barry Root
• The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
• The Tiger Prince by Chen Jiang Hong
• It’s a Tiger! by David LaRochelle, illustrated by Jeremy Tankard
• “Sweet Porridge” by Bobby London, found in Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists, edited by Chris Duffy
• It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach
• Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems
• I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
• The Amazing Bone by William Steig
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, ill. Sheila McGraw
• Bone: Out of Boneville by Jeff Smith
• Bandits by Joanna Wright
• Flight of the Dodo by Peter Brown

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