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It’s surprising that it’s taken Hollywood this long to adapt Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox into a movie, although Hollywood seems to have waited for Dahl’s death in 1990 to turn several of his books–Matilda, James And The Giant Peach, The Witches–into movies, and that’s not including the even more recent remake of Charlie And [...]
When I was in grade school there was a woman who worked in the lunchroom. She wasn’t a lunch lady in the sense that she didn’t fill the tray compartments with stewed prunes and reconstituted potatoes and processed meatloaf by-product. She sat out in the lunchroom itself and it was her job to break up fights, [...]
Food is a recurring motif in the work of William Sleator. From House of Stairs to Parasite Pig (sequel to Interstellar Pig) where food is central, to The Boy Who Couldn’t Die (in which a young man almost gives away his secret by grabbing a hot dish with his hands), The Last Universe (in which [...]
Dark Horse Comics, publishers of, among others, the Sin City and Hellboy comics, is now republishing a classic comic book called Creepy, one which, ironically, was first published in 1964. That’s ten years after the infamous hearings held by the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency–hearings which were spurred by the “excesses” of 1950’s comic [...]
Supposedly ventriloquist Shari Lewis, who’s best known as the hand behind the puppet Lamb Chop, liked to go to restaurants and order lamb chops just to see the horrified looks on the faces of the waiters. I really want to believe that’s true, but, even if it’s not, she and author Lan O’Kun did [...]
To say I grew up listening to Peter, Paul, And Mary would be an understatement. My mother played their albums on a daily basis. When I got my first tape recorder I had a lot of fun recording my best friend belching, but what I really listened to–in bed before going to sleep almost every [...]
If you were of a certain age, you watched the original The Electric Company. While just as hip (after all it had Morgan Freeman in the cast), if not always as surreal, as Sesame Street, The Electric Company was aimed at a slightly older crowd and focused on spelling and grammar, rather than just learning [...]
Even though I read primarily science fiction and fantasy as a kid, I loved Judy Blume’s books mainly because there was a sense that she got it, that, even though she was an adult, she remembered and understood what it was like to be young. The fact that her books were often assigned to us [...]
A librarian friend recently sent me an article called The First Time. It’s by a librarian who noticed a kid holding Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. She asked him if he’d read it before. He hadn’t. She asked him if anyone had told him how it ended. No one had. She goes on,
There are a few books that I go back and reread every few years, but there’s only one book I’ve read at least once every single year since I was nine. That book is Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. I discovered it through a Disney album of songs from the movie along with a very condensed [...] |
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