Another Belle of Amherst
Shaddup, that’s Betsy on the right. This coming Saturday, I’ll be introducing my old friend Betsy Hearne at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, where she will be delivering the Barbara Elleman...
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Photo by Richard Asch Had a wonderful day with great friend (and former boss) Betsy Hearne at the Eric Carle on Saturday. Together we led a little lunchtime discussion–I started it by asking Betsy what...
View ArticleCircling Tuck: An Interview with Natalie Babbitt
Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting was first published in 1975; it has since become a modern classic. Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s 25th anniversary edition of the novel, to be published this spring,...
View ArticleDisney Revisited, Or, Jiminy Cricket, It’s Musty Down Here!
I call him to account for his debasement of the traditional literature of childhood, in films and in the books he publishes: He shows scant respect for the integrity of the original creations of...
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