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Video Sunday: Don’t feed the plants
Happy Day Before the Eclipse! We’ve a couple interesting videos to peruse today, so take your pick! First off, two recent ones from the live feed show I do with the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop. The first is a bit of an aberration since it involves me being interviewed, not the other way around. The lure? […]
Surprising Jolts of Children’s Literature: Happy 4th of July!
In case you’re confused, there is actually no direct connection between today’s post and Independence Day. I just felt somewhat bad about appropriating the holiday without acknowledging its existence and so here we are. Happy 4th! And now, some random adult books with tangential connections to books for kids. The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis […]
Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature: Ramona invented the original Portlandia
Ooo. Lots of adult books with smatterings of children’s literature littered about the pages today. Don’t even know where to start with this one. Let’s see, eeny meeny miney . . . MO! Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books by Christine Woodside This […]
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Jolts of Children’s Literature in Unexpected Places
This is one of those series I like to do, regardless of whether or not anyone else finds it interesting. So, in effect, it’s the most self-indulgent of my postings. Still, I think these books say something about how children’s literature is viewed by mainstream culture. And in that there is a benefit. Onward! I […]
Top 100 Children's Novels #19: Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#19 Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932) 81 points Again with the food – I always want a slice of pie, maple syrup on snow, or a stack of pancakes after reading Wilder. – Jessalynn Gale My inclusion of this one even surprises me a bit. I admit to being […]
Top 100 Children's Novels #27: Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#27 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1935) 62 points The summer before I entered fifth grade, thanks to my fourth grade teacher who read aloud Where the Red Fern Grows (which turned the key in the lock of my lifetime reading obsession), I zipped through this beloved series. – Tess Alfonsin […]
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Top 100 Children’s Novels #84: The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#84 The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1940) 23 points Cold! Hunger! Suffering! My mother read the Little House books to us children in a constant loop, starting with Big Woods, cycling up through Golden Years, and then back to the Woods again. Then when my mother was dying, I read the Little House […]
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