Chicken and cheese
As a boy, with Dracula as my inspiration, I would add a slice of American cheese to my plate whenever we had chicken for dinner. Cheese, right?
Donald J. Sobol (1924–2012)
Donald J. Sobol, the creator of Encyclopedia Brown, has died at the age of eighty-seven.
On One Morning in Maine
Elaine Fine's favorite book from childhood
Jay Bennett (1912–2009)
He wrote one of the best books of my youth
Children, “best readers in the world”
Novelist Katherine Paterson on her readers
Reading Rainbow ends
After 26 years
Fresh cookies, fresh ironing
Proustian passage from a childhood book