Our favorite childhood books stay with us in our minds and our hearts forever. They’re the reason why, mid-life, you can look at the bald patch of the man at your side and think only of the velveteen rabbit, with …
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Some Pig, Some Book: Charlotte’s Web Turns 60
How E.B. White loved spiders before the rest of the world fell in love with his. Some children’s books are truly timeless. When you think of their titles, the very smell of their pages seems to seep from your memory, …
Happy Birthday, Roald Dahl–Magic Man and Peter Pan
My childhood would have been so barren were it not for the words of Roald Dahl, and, of course, the whimsical scribbles by Quentin Blake that always accompanied them. The BFG, The Witches, George’s Marvelous Medicine, Matilda… I, like children generations before and after me, …
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