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...that your story didn't mention having a baby as some women's response to middle age. I'm 49, and my husband and I have a 4-year-old son who fills every day of our "middle age" with joy. Midlife and motherhood are a great combination! Kim Dahl Provo, Utah, U.S. A Mother vs. the President Although I am not related to antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan [Aug. 22], I am ashamed that she shares my family name. Of course, I support her right to voice her opinions, but I seriously question her motives. I too am a parent...
...writing popular children's books since 1981. The collection, with a concentration of postwar literature, includes a 1940-99 set of the low-cost, high-quality Ladybird books, which made reading widely accessible. A recent addition is an original illustration by Faith Jaques from the first edition of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The center's new $11.3 million home is located in Newcastle's once-derelict Ouseburn Valley, a warehouse neighborhood of artists' studios and galleries. Built in a seven-story Victorian mill, the rejuvenated building's top floor features a gigantic, child-friendly loft, intended...
...writing popular children's books since 1981. The collection, with a concentration of postwar literature, includes a 1940-99 set of the low-cost, high-quality Ladybird books, which made reading widely accessible. A recent addition is an original illustration by Faith Jaques from the first edition of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
This is rather a thin tale, not much thickened by Burton's direction or Depp's playing. There's a distance, a detachment to this film. It lacks passion. This was a defect of Dahl's novel as well as the first movie version: they never fully embraced the dark side of the story. Children can handle deeper scares than this movie offers. More important, they deserve edgier, more suspenseful storytelling than it provides...
Thus was an obsession born. For Willy, all chocolate is bittersweet. So he builds the world's largest candy factory and manages it in a way that could be described as presumptively eccentric. As a backstory for Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, that is, shall we say, a serviceable invention. The same might be said of Tim Burton's new movie adaptation of this apparently unstoppable media property. It's all right without being particularly riveting...