Wild things: the joy of reading children's literature as an adult

New eyes, new ears: Margaret Wise Brown and Goodnight Moon

Runaways: Family drama in picture books ... and well beyond

Once upon a time and in and out of weeks: Fairy tales and Maurice Sendak

Why a duck? The uses of talking animals from Aesop to Beatrix Potter to Olivia the Pig

You have to know how: Dr. Seuss vs. Dick and Jane

Kids being kids: Ramona Quimby, American pest

God and man in Narnia

One nation: Washington's cherry tree, Rosa Park's bus, and Oz

Going on seventeen (or not): Little Women, little houses, and Peter Pans

The end: Dead pets, dead grandparents, and the glory of everything.