The other day, a friend and I were foraging at lunchtime in the children’s reading room at the New York Public Library. He picked up a picture book called “Wombat Goes Walkabout.” At four and a half, my friend would have read anything with “wombat” in ...
The judges have spoken, and the results of the Book Bench’s Critterati contest—dress your pet animal as a character in literature—are in. Here, in no particular order (or genus or species), are the five winning entries: Congratulations to Poppy, Mary, ...
Critterati contest (submit your photos by October 25th; see all entries) has signed on two new judges: Jessamyn West, the librarian and moderator of Metafilter, and Rick Duffield, the executive producer of “Wishbone,” the children’s TV series that ...
Since you’re reading this blog, you are the sort of person who either loves Loudon Wainwright III or would love him if you’d just give him a listen. Therefore, good news: tickets are still available for LWIII’s New Yorker Festival event tonight. He ...
A recent post about the demise of “Reading Rainbow” sparked a conversation around the Book Bench about “Wishbone,” another PBS series, which introduced children to even more ambitious works of literature than LeVar Burton could. Wishbone, a real, live ...
In 2002, I published a book about a man who called himself Binjamin Wilkomirski, the author of Fragments, an acclaimed but, it turned out, bogus Holocaust memoir. Wilkomirski—his actual name was Bruno Doessekker—used my own family history (my ...
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