Saving the Owls: Who Knew

2014-03-09T18:39:09-04:00

Admittedly, I chose There's an Owl in the Shower because I had read Jean Craighead George's classic My Side of the Mountain. I knew of her reputation for including ecological and environmental themes in the stories she has written for children. But when I realized that it had been published in

Saving the Owls: Who Knew2014-03-09T18:39:09-04:00

Kidlit, Seriously

2014-06-26T14:57:27-04:00

When Penelope Lively was interviewed by Emma Donoghue in 2003, the author was tickled to have her books for children acknowledged; her writing for children was routinely dismissed and she explained that she now felt quite distanced from it. The news of this dismissal shocked me because I came of

Kidlit, Seriously2014-06-26T14:57:27-04:00
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