HeyJaredA Pilgrim's Progress through Children's Literature
Finding children's literature that trusts young readers to think, feel, and laugh - from forgotten gems to books that actually earn their praise.
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Cat Nap (opens the original)
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An art museum generally teaches a child a few rules right off the bat: don’t touch, stand back, look at the label to find out what it is you’re looking at. This is how grown-ups behave in a room full of expensive, breakable things, and each one of these rules takes away how a small child meets an object - with her hands, up close, without a full paragraph of contextual information she cannot even read yet. I worked in a museum for a while, and the glass case is a necessary protection, but it’s a
The Giant Jam Sandwich (opens the original)
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There is a kind of summer book that does not ask to be loved, and The Giant Jam Sandwich is one of them. Four million wasps descend upon a British village called Itching Down for some unknown reason; the villagers bake a loaf of bread the size of a hill, spread one slice with butter and strawberry jam, and drop the second slice on the whole swarm from a fleet of flying machines (including one tractor held aloft by balloons). That’s the plot.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="h
We're Not Children, We're the Moon Jumpers (opens the original)
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After taking a bit of a break, this is the perfect book to come back to. It’s a real essence-of-summer book. Four children and a black cat go out into a full-moon summer night and don’t want to come in. A warm evening refuses to end, the grass goes cool, the moon comes up, and the children stay out in it until they’re called inside to bed. There is no lesson and almost no plot, and the almost is important: it opens out into the night and then, at the end, closes. The long-day hour when a child h
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