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The right has attached itself to the latest casualty of the cancel culture wars: Late children’s book author Dr.…
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Astrid Lindgren, the beloved author of the Pippi Longstocking series, died in 2002 at the age of 91. Thirteen years…
J.K. Rowling plans on writing another children’s book at some point in the future, so mark your invisible calendars.
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Huh: Netflix wants to make an animated TV show out of Dr. Seuss’s famous Green Eggs and Ham. Somehow, they’re gonna…
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If you were a child in America in the past so many years, you probably read or at least can acknowledge the…
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Since Rush Limbaugh can do very little that is not worthy of immediate and unstinting public ridicule, he has gone…
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When a biracial family simply eating Cheerios results in the psychotic break of legions of racists, it's hard to…
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The children's literature market has come a long way since (the ever wonderful and important) Pat the Bunny. These…
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Sylvia Plath, the brilliant, tragic literary giant you were Most Likely to Be Obsessed With in high school, isn't…
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As children, many of us encountered Richard Scarry's book, What Do People Do all Day? A classic kid's book, it uses…
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Just like how Michael Jordan played baseball competently and then came back to play basketball superbly, J.K.…
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Marcel The Shell is making the leap from overnight viral sensation to the subject of a new children's book, Marcel…