A strong man sails by ash breeze!

Daa-r’uu Wee-z’oo.”-Ettie the Explorer

This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks neatly under the skirt of the chair. It’s where Sunnybank Lad...

Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen

It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday...

To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.”~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

When teachers participate in a literary experience with a professionally presented children’s play, they are offering their students a text quite different from anything that they will experience within their classrooms. Within this literary experience,...

,Os dais cuenta cabal de la cadena de crímenes tramados por la nena? Crimen número uno: la acusada comete allanamiento de morada. Crimen número dos: el personaje se queda con tres platos de potaje. Crimen...

The (children’s) book is a specimen of the most scandalous escapism: it paints a happiness under incompatible conditions – the sort of freedom we can have only in childhood and the sort we can have...

There’s a theme that appears in much of your work,” I say to Maurice on my last visit to Connecticut, “and I can only hint at it because it’s difficult to formulate or describe. It...

Before he got too far, he thought he smelled a fire.No sooner did he blink before he sensed something dire.He heard a sound and froze, danger tickling his nose.His ears perked up as tiny cries...

A wife is like a children’s movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you...

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different....

The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists...

Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.