You Know, for Kids

As I grew older and out of children's chapter books, all those years ago, I kept only a handful of favorites on my bookshelf. I'm...

It's one of those precious delights of parenthood to share a book we loved as kids ourselves to our own children, and to relive that...

I can't imagine many parents are unfamiliar with Munro Leaf's classic about the peace-loving bull; since coming out in the 1930s, it...

As parents we tend, when looking back at classic children's books, to concentrate on the ones we loved ourselves, rejoicing in the chanc...

I remember when a friend introduced me to the world of Tintin. I can't remember exactly how old I was, probably about seven or eight, ...

The holiday season is upon us, and with it every parent's favorite pastime, family travel. Every generation thinks it has the worst of ...

I'm really cheating in calling this an Old School, since I'd never been to a drive-in movie theater in my life before last week,...

I always kept five or six of my favorite childhood chapter books on my shelves, all the way through adolescence and young adulthood and mar...

I think I must have read Lewis Carroll’s classics at some point in my early childhood, but I honestly don’t remember doing so. In many ways...

A friend writing a story about a backyard movie party asked me the other day for some good “summer movie” recommendations for kids—that i...

The “Old School” tag has pretty much jumped the shark these days, but it fits my purpose here well: These posts are about the unique joy of...