Clearly no one needs to be told to read Margaret Wise Brown’s seminal text Goodnight Moon, which is going stronger than ever as it approaches its 80th birthday. But what this episode presupposes is that maybe we all need to talk about how creepy the book can be, no matter how much our kids might…
Listen here or via your podcatcher of choice. Like what you hear? Don’t forget to subscribe! The great bibliographer Fredson Bowers once accused his graduate students of thinking that the editions they used in their textual criticism came down from Mt. Sinai. That might be a bit harsh, but do we really think about the…
Listen here or via your podcatcher of choice. Like what you hear? Don’t forget to subscribe! The genre of novel has dominated fiction for centuries now, and its form hasn’t exactly spared picture books. But as valuable as this genre is, do we leave something behind when we fail to consider other, more episodic forms…
Listen to the episode directly on Buzzsprout here, or on your podcatcher of choice. Don’t forget to subscribe! About the Episode We all dread teaching our children about death—probably because of the way death figures into our own lives. If we could forestall death’s terror by refiguring it as a natural part of lived experience,…