A Painting about Play
I have looked at this painting by Herb for hours. In our apartment in New York it was hanging in …
Category Archives: Education
How I Learned to Read
The other day in one of those internet searches that leads you somewhat astray, I stumbled down a track that …
“Ladies and jellyspoons / I come before you to stand behind you / To tell you something I know nothing about.”
In her last post, Mary wondered if a playground culture still exists. Since today there are so few informal playgrounds where …
One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of Children and My Eight Minutes of Fame
Forty-two years ago this month, our first book: One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of American Children was published by …
Why Robots Scare Me
It’s not that I fear they will take over so many jobs that we will end up with a permanent …
How We Learned To Be Snobs
Snobbery is the basic cause of our nation’s present troubles. Sadly, we have been encouraging it for many years, I …
The Lesson Learned is not Always the Lesson Taught
Herb is the one who usually writes about poetry, but I have something to say about a poem. Miss Mary …
In Defense of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Part Two
First of all, let me dispatch the criticism of the passage most frequently cited by the media as offensive: The Little …
In Defense of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Part One
When I read of the decision by the ALSC, a division of the American Library Association, to strip Laura Ingalls …
RIP, Iona Opie
Iona Opie died on Oct. 23 at the age of 94. You probably never heard of her, but in 1971, …
