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☆ Holiday Gift Books: Reading for Children
  + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Meghan Cox Gurdon | Elsa Beskow | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Assuming that gift books should be something a little out of the ordinary—larger in size, oddly intriguing, distinctly illustrated, appealing to nostalgia—here are some wrap-worthy ideas. Grab a Copy Around the Year By Elsa Beskow Floris Books 32 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million Bookshop“Around the Year” invites children ages 3-8 into the Scandinavian idyll of the Swedish illustrator Elsa Beskow (1874-1953). In her pictorial world, fairies dance in the forest, toddlers swim naked, and older children are all tidy, cooperative and nicely dressed. The entry for this month, for instance, depicts a mother reading to three children by a cozy fire: “Gray is November, / except / for the bright fire / with a story, / a cushion for the cat, / the dark shut outside / and the light in the flames / where mysteries lie / and we dream.”
Persons: Elsa Beskow Floris, Barnes, Elsa Beskow, “ Gray, ” Organizations: Noble Locations: Swedish
☆ ‘A Strange Life’ Review: Louisa May Alcott as Essayist
  + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Meghan Cox Gurdon | Louisa May Alcott | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Photo: GRANGERIn the annals of irresponsible utopianism, few names stand out like that of Bronson Alcott. Bronson’s propensity to run up debts and alienate supporters sank his young family into poverty. Had it not been for the busy and lucrative pen of their second daughter, Louisa May, the Alcott family might have disappeared into the footnotes of history. As it is, they remain a subject of fascination, for Louisa (1832-88) would produce not only the novels “Little Women” (1868) and “Little Men” (1871) but also short stories and brilliant nonfiction sketches. Grab a Copy A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott By Louisa May Alcott Notting Hill Editions 168 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.
Persons: GRANGER, Bronson Alcott, Abigail, Louisa May, Alcott, Louisa, Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Alcott Notting, Barnes, Charles Lane, ’, Liz Rosenberg Organizations: Louisa May Alcott Notting Hill, Noble Locations: Fredericksburg, Va, New England, Massachusetts
☆ Partnership Report: Three Books on Marriage
  + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Meghan Cox Gurdon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Photo: Bob Thomas/Getty ImagesMarriage seems to be having a moment. In “The Two-Parent Privilege,” Melissa S. Kearney describes how marriage helps children flourish. Brad Wilcox implores adults in a forthcoming polemic, “Get Married,” to find happiness and security the old-fashioned way. A critic in New York magazine bemoans the “marital revivalism” of such wedlock proponents, while, online, arguments rage over the practical value of marriage to the individual: Are women happier single or as wives? Why should men even bother to marry, given the calculus of risks versus rewards?
Persons: Bob Thomas, Melissa S, Kearney, Brad Wilcox, “, ” Locations: New York
☆ ‘The Canceling of the American Mind’ Review: Shut Up, They Said
  + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Meghan Cox Gurdon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Photo: Alamy Stock PhotoWe’re in a terrible spot, and everybody knows it. Americans on the right and left detest each other, excoriate each other and, with every flaring of rage, move further from any sense of pluralistic common cause. Citizens have lost confidence in officialdom. Fashionable ideologies that brook no good-faith dissent have surged into every corner of life. Make a minor demurral, even a joke, and you risk being subjected to the ghastly nullification rituals of what is called cancel culture.
Organizations: Citizens Locations: officialdom
☆ Children’s Books: The Harvest is Plenty
  + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Meghan Cox Gurdon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones
☆ Children’s Books: Enchanting Art, Fickle Fashion
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Meghan Cox Gurdon | Dave Eggers | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
The unusual design of Dave Eggers’s novel “The Eyes & the Impossible” hints at some sort of unusual content. The edges of the book’s pages are gilded, signaling refinement, while the front and back covers are chunky and made of wood. Grab a Copy The Eyes and the Impossible By Dave Eggers Knopf Books for Young Readers 256 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million BookshopLike the design, the story on offer combines rough nature with an elevated sensibility. More than that, it presents children ages 8-12 with one of the most appealing heroes in recent children’s literature.
☆ Woke Roald Dahl Will Put Kids to Sleep
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Meghan Cox Gurdon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
My late father-in-law detested vague or imprecise language. “Don’t tell me you saw a person,” went his typical complaint. “What kind of person was it? Old or young?”He, like his contemporary Roald Dahl , came from an era when people valued clarity in speech and writing and believed words should reveal meaning rather than conceal it. Puffin Books has made the passing of that era obvious by subjecting Dahl’s books to a ghastly process of social-justice blandification.
☆ ‘Muppets in Moscow’ Review: ‘R’ Is for Russia
  + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Meghan Cox Gurdon | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
In 1993, commercial airplanes landing in Moscow were jammed with church and business types eager to establish a hold in the rowdy, risky atmosphere of newly post-Soviet Russia. Among the influx of hopeful foreigners was an intrepid American television producer named Natasha Lance. As a teenager, Ms. Lance had been so enamored of Russian literature that she’d changed her name from Susan to the more romantic and Chekhovian alternative. Fluent in Russian, having studied in the Soviet Union, Ms. Lance arrived in Moscow with an agenda that fell somewhere between the commerce and religion of her fellow passengers. More to the point, for policy makers, a Russian “Sesame Street” was a way to spread American values such as racial and ethnic tolerance, the legitimacy of nontraditional sex roles, and the vigor of an open society.
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