Children's Lit Book Group

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…