Today is the birthday of Horatio Alger, a prolific nineteenth century writer of novels for boys which became known as the “rags to riches” stories.…
Today is the birthday of Jacob Grimm, and Rita Smith is here today to discuss the life and influence of the Brother Grimm.
Here’s Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children’s Literature, with a Lost and Found essay about Francis Burnett.
If your household is looking for some books that will take you to the next level after Harry Potter, let me say just two words:…
Today, Fiona Barnes discusses Robert Stevenson’s poetry for children.
Alice Childress was a woman of firsts. Born on October 12th in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920 and raised in New York City, in 1952…
Mason Locke Weems was born today in 1759. He was an ordained Anglican minister — hence the name he’s most frequently known by, “Parson Weems.”…
That’s E.B. White reading the startling opening sentences from his 1952 classic, Charlotte’s Web. This is one of the most remarkable beginnings in all of children’s literature, and it reminds us that this book is about some pretty harsh realities.
C. S. Lewis, who wrote the Narnia books, thought that there were three ways of writing for children. One of the better ways (though, not…