Will Your Kids Love Your Favorite Childhood Reads? Let's Find Out
With few new books coming in, our kids' books columnist turns to the favorite reads of her childhood — beginning with the 19th-century classic Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.
There is a copy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein sitting on my desk. I'm looking at it right now. The reason it is on my desk and not on a bookshelf is because it represents a failed experiment, one I have to share.
My son wasn't ready for it.
Before you take me to task for trying to read to a ten-year-old, let me be clear: He's very much into zombies () and animi (animuses?) (), so I thought, hey, maybe we can do this. And it's not as if the monster gave him nightmares or anything. Well,
