Monthly Archives: August 2023

Felled by a summer cold, I wanted something that would pull me along, and this was just right. Described on the back as a “French Huckleberry Finn,” this is a pleasant fairy-tale like story (with mysterious Gypsies, because it’s French, though these are perhaps more than usually cruel) about a boy who goes on anContinueContinue reading “The Child and the River, Henri Bosco”

I checked this out of the library to read to my 6-year-old, because I’m a NYRB stan, and because the first line of the introduction (by Philip Pullman) said that it’s the funniest children’s book ever. And it is quite funny, but in a very Victorian British sort of way. Here’s a taste of theContinueContinue reading “The Magic Pudding, Norman Lindsay”