PimaLib_JohnC

"Why are there not more children's books with grown-up protagonists? Some of our most iconic children's books, including some listed here, feature adults (even if sometimes they're actually woodland creatures), but it's something we see less and le..."

"The state you love to make fun of—the home of the ubiquitous Florida Man—is also the wildly diverse home of literary giants, music legends, legendary activists, pioneering transgender punks, and literal rocket scientists. Along with, of course, be..."

"Okay, full disclosure: it's not actually National Mice Week. I don't even know if there is such a thing. But some of the best picture books are about mice! So let's have a spontaneous, not-officially-sanctioned celebration of our small, fur-bearin..."

"Imagine physics without Einstein*, feminism without Betty Friedan or Gloria Steinem, pop music without Carole King, rock and roll without Bob Dylan, punk rock without Joey Ramone, American literature without JD Salinger or Saul Bellow, children's ..."