The House on East 88th Street, by Bernard Waber Then: Wow! A pet crocodile who lives in the bathtub! Fun! I wish I had one! Now: That’s what I call a tragedy waiting to happen. Isn’t this already a show on TLC? This book should have been titled, Oh, the Health Codes You’ll Violate! Pippi […]
Remember how our parents used to tuck us in at night and send us off to dreamland with stories of a woman the size of a mastadon punishing kids by placing them inside a tiny cupboard studded with nails and broken glass? Or the eccentric proprietor of a magical candy wonderland…that just might kill you? […]
Being normal is simply for the unimaginative. In literature, as in life, it’s the weirdos that shake things up and make you love them. (Insert your favorite Jennifer Lawrence GIF here.) Whether they’re bobbing along on their own dreamlike ocean or hot on the trail of utter nonsense, the dotty-as-you-please characters are the ones who […]
Lord knows that reading before bed never grows old—it’s just that as we mature, we’re left to our own devices to get the reading done. Gone are the days when our mother or father would read to us aloud, tuck our book away, and turn the lights off when we’ve dozed off. (These days we […]
