Of love and kindness
Jane Eyre boils down to two powerful essential needs: to give and receive love amply, and to have the liberty...
Play more, work better
Of course, playing more with a view to working better isn’t going about it in the right spirit. But play...
Brotherly bonding
Maxim Gorky had a brutally hard childhood, captured vividly in the first of his three memoirs. Among other losses, he...
How to unlock a door
This is a curious and endearing account of the cleverness (aesthetic and psychological) of a child of two artists. Claude,...
On writing letters
The wryness of Kenneth Grahame’s Dream Days is captured here in describing the cultural activity of choice for his younger...
Running away to sea
At least in his imagination, this boy runs away to sea after being banished to the nursery or lifted by...
For one awful moment
Timothy and his siblings run away from their strict grandmother and land, unwittingly, at their uncle's place. Ambrose is a...
How to read a book in a language you don’t know (I)
When Luiz went to Brazil recently, I gave him a copy of a Caroline story for his two great-nieces. Most...
Apple-cheeked children
It's an obvious one, but still a charming picture of innocence and health, apple-cheeked.
'I'm sure I never saw a...
Schoolboy sketches
Maurice Cramer was a Geneva schoolboy who joined his classmates in August 1870 for a school trip to discover Champéry. ...
Leadership … Daoist style
As you know, a good children’s book has much to teach grown ups and often far more entertainingly than any...
The best part of books…
Obvious when you put it like that. But it’s got me trying to think of what’s actually happening in books...
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