Once upon a time three sisters journeyed from far-flung cities to visit their mother in a small coastal village. The ...
Mythologie Monday features short essays on the meaning of common objects, language, signs, and so on. More specifically: we use ...
Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat Comes Back is a strange kind of sequel. Sequel is a broad categorization. ...
As a literacy aid meant to compete with the then popular (but increasingly scrutinized) Dick and Jane primers, the great triumph ...
We’ve found it! We’ve found an escape from the politically entrenched matters of representation in the media. Just imagine: instead ...
The most famous Maurice Sendak book was written as the middle of a trilogy, representing the psychological development of children ...
I first met Henry when I interviewed to be his intern for a then flourishing footwear retailer. We immediately bonded ...
Social Network Sunday features books made into networks. Characters become nodes connected by specific interactions, which, here, is direct speech; ...
I have this kid who needs to know everything about everything. He hates injustice, and he’s going to change the ...
How does dystopia begin? Sparingly, it seems: “I wait.” “It’s overwhelming.”* In a sample of fifty young adult ...
Editor’s Introduction: On January 20, 2017, a Scottish newspaper’s TV listing jokingly categorized the inauguration of Donald Trump as an ...
From Edward Gorey to the dishonorable mention of the Berenstain Bears, picture book fashions tell us a lot about our ...
I’m writing this on the morning after more than a million people around the world came together in the name ...
I know this sounds greedy. Maybe it should be enough that two years in a row you’ve given us women ...
(Note: This article was originally published in August 2015 on Fashion Research) According to a Japan Daily Press article that I recently came across, ...