Tag: kidlit

As so many significant events in my life, it happened at the library. It all started with a stack of bookmarks printed with a list...

I never read Nancy Drew until my daughter got a haircut a couple of years ago that prompted people to say she looked like the...

Kate DiCamillo has a Southern accent. I did not expect this because I do not hear it in the lyrical rhythms of her wide-eyed fiction....

My daughter discovered Percy Jackson in the third grade and hasn’t read much else since. I have defended this choice, because like Neil Gaiman and...