Dispelling the Myth of Myth: More on Courage From Stories
This article continues the thoughts on the importance of stories that I touched on in “Madeleine L’Engle on Courage From Stories” earlier this week.
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Madeleine L’Engle on Courage From Stories
One little sentence, one little personal connection between me and a woman who’d unwittingly changed my life, the woman I would name my daughter after eight years later.
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Serious Comics, Part 6: Fancy Fiction
Most of the comics I’ve listed in my serious comics posts are ones that I would argue qualify as capital-L Literature. Of course, there are plenty of non-comics books that qualify as Literature already—and some of those have been turned into comics. Here are a handful of literature-based or literature-inspired comics that we think are worth reading. My recommendation: if you like these, then seek out the source texts as well.
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Best Audio Books for Family Road Trips
Park the gadgets and keep the road trip bonding flowing with our extensive list of great audio books the whole family will love.
Continue ReadingA Wrinkle in Time 50th Anniversary Edition
In honor of the 50th anniversary of A Wrinkle in Time, there is a special edition that was released this month, with the same artwork as the original hardcover release. The new covers have some metallic foil stamping, a Newbery …
Continue ReadingA Wrinkle in Time 50th Anniversary Blog Tour: Tesser With Me
I’ll never forget where I first met Meg Murry: Mrs. Beville’s 5th-grade language arts class, Aurora, Colorado, 1978. Mrs. B. always picked the best books for her classroom read-alouds: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The Cricket in Times Square. How to Eat Fried Worms. And Madeleine L’Engle’s A […]
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