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The pain the Cheney’s are feeling is the same pain that millions of families with gay and lesbian members have had put upon them by the homophobic elements within today’s political right. The difference is that Dick Cheney, a man of power, stood and...
The decision to open with the mellow “Title Track” from their 2000 album We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes was a curious choice for the Death Cabbies. Why open with such a mellow song? Moments later the pounding chords of...
Brothers Grimm, on the other hand, “is more user friendly,” Tatar says. The illustrations’ layout invites not examination, but aesthetics. They accompany the stories in much the same way that they would in a standard book of fairy tales.
Tatar explains that she decided to devote a book to the Grimms “because they give us both the magical enchanting side and also the dark side of fairy tales.” It allows her “to include the not as famous ones, the undiluted...
At this afternoon’s talk, Tatar will discuss the importance of childhood reading’s excitement and revelation. Like the magic amulets within them, fairy tales are “an enabling mechanism.” By creating a link to literacy and knowledge of the adult...