The Story and the Self

I loved books as a kid. But one of the strange things about loving books as I did is that I somehow managed to not read most of the grade school kid classics. I'm thinking of stuff like Wrinkle in Time, that Lion, Witch, Wardrobe thingy, Lord of the Rings, and all...

Legitmate Worries

Wemberly, Kevin Henkes’ anxious little girl mouse, has been on my mind recently. The thing to know—book title, Wemberly Worried, tells us so—is that Wemberly isn’t a cool cucumber. She worries. She worries about all kinds of things, from...