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Children's Lit Book Group

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

The Real Worlds of Children’s Fantasy

Although I’ve been a book lover as long as I can remember, I have never been consumed by the desire to visit authors’ homes, to walk their haunts, to explore…

Children's Lit Book Group | June 2009 | By Libby Gruner


Art and Identity in Bud, Not Buddy and Becoming Naomi León

When my son was small we called him Nicholas. It was a big name for a small boy, but it was the name we’d chosen and we hoped it would…

Children's Lit Book Group | April 2009 | By Libby Gruner


Coraline

Sometimes my friends and I joke that we need clones — one for work and one for home, perhaps? Wouldn’t it be great, some days, to have someone else to…

Children's Lit Book Group | February 2009 | By Libby Gruner


Christmas in the Country

In our 21 years of marriage, we’ve had Christmas celebrations in at least eight different houses, with groups as small as the two of us and as large as the…

Children's Lit Book Group | December 2008 | By Libby Gruner


Running for Office

Not long ago, Nick announced that he would never run for president because he didn’t want to be killed. I don’t know where he got that — we’ve certainly not…

Children's Lit Book Group | November 2008 | By Libby Gruner


Time to Grow Up

It’s back to school time around here. Four of my friends have packed sons or daughters off to college for the first time and are learning how to reconfigure patterns…

Children's Lit Book Group | September 2008 | By Libby Gruner


Secrecy and Surveillance

What is it like to be a teenager these days? I suspect the question is unanswerable–to a teenager, isn’t it just like asking “what is it like to breathe?” And…

Children's Lit Book Group | August 2008 | By Libby Gruner


Bunnies for Babies

A colleague had a new baby recently. A new baby is always a time for rejoicing, for gift-giving, for celebrating. So I went over with a meal and a couple…

Children's Lit Book Group | June 2008 | By Libby Gruner


The Arrival and The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Everything is new to the infant. I remember seeing my tiny daughter, only minutes old, lying in her father’s arms drinking in the scenery with eyes wide open, and suddenly…

Children's Lit Book Group | May 2008 | By Libby Gruner


Home-Away-Home

It’s been a long time since I sat with a child in my lap and read a picture book out loud. And, as I’ve said in an earlier column, I…

Children's Lit Book Group | April 2008 | By Libby Gruner


Vampire Love

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight is among the most popular novels out there right now for tween girls — as you already know, if you’re the parent of one. And it puts…

Children's Lit Book Group | March 2008 | By Libby Gruner


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