Pill-Popping Preschoolers: No Epidemic Required

2014-03-31T15:46:36-04:00

A remarkable rise in children's emotional and behavioural problems? 2011; W.W. Norton & Company, 2012 A striking upsurge in the diagnoses of ADHD, childhood depression and bipolar disorder, autism? A significant increase in the number of children taking psychiatric medications? It's a mental health epidemic. Or, not. What

Pill-Popping Preschoolers: No Epidemic Required2014-03-31T15:46:36-04:00

Why read a book when you could just talk about it?

2021-02-01T16:12:26-05:00

It's Rebecca's fault that I read this. And does the fact that she enjoyed it so much suggest that she has never actually read any of those works she has discussed on Of Books and Bicycles? You'll have to ask her about that. Raincoast Books, 2007Trans. Jeffrey Mehlman

Why read a book when you could just talk about it?2021-02-01T16:12:26-05:00

Joan Bodger on Making Literary Pilgrimages

2014-03-17T14:13:03-04:00

I first read Joan Bodger's How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books (1959) about twenty years ago, and I recall liking it well enough, but wishing that there was a little more about their bookishness and a little less about England. Now I think it's a perfect blend.

Joan Bodger on Making Literary Pilgrimages2014-03-17T14:13:03-04:00

Girls for sale: at what cost?

2014-03-15T19:44:56-04:00

Not in your neighbourhood, right? When you think about trafficking, you think of "Thai girls in shackles", or "Russian girls held at gunpoint by the mob", or "illegal border crossings, fake passports, and captivity". You don't think of Americans trafficking Americans; that doesn't happen to American girls. You

Girls for sale: at what cost?2014-03-15T19:44:56-04:00

Whose daughter did Cinderella eat?

2014-03-15T19:43:58-04:00

Harper Collins, 2011 Peggy Orenstein's to start with. But Cinderella has consumed countless little girls, and she has not yet had her fill. And that's not only speaking of the Grimm Brothers version of "Cinderella". Though readers know there are far grimmer versions (certainly gorier, with stepsisters lopping

Whose daughter did Cinderella eat?2014-03-15T19:43:58-04:00
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