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Topic: children’s literature

Professional proofreader (Getty Images/Maica)

Don't blame sensitivity readers

Alison Stine
Beverly Cleary at home in Carmel Valley, 2006. (Christina Koci Hernandez/San Francisco Chronicle by Getty Images)

Ramona Quimby is a role model for adults

Ashlie D. Stevens
Julius Vance, Laville Williams, and Allen Ware stand and smile while selling the Chicago Defender, the leading African American newspaper in 1982 (The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

Brownies’ Book: A pioneering publication

Paige Gray - The Conversation
Taye Diggs (Matt Smith)

Taye Diggs wants to "Set It Up" again

Rachel Leah
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"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown (Harper & Brothers)

Finding Cézanne in "Goodnight Moon"

Noah Charney
Winnie the Pooh (Disney)

Winnie the Pooh vs. China

Gabriel Bell
A still from "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry” (pottermore.com)

Pottermore problems

Paula Young Lee

Smiling slaves at story time

Paula Young Lee
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Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games" (Lionsgate)

Katniss is a hero for boys too

Graham Shelby
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-244699p1.html>Falconia</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Hillel Italie
E.L. Konigsburg (AP/Simon & Schuster, Ron Kunzman)

Molly Rosner - LA Review of Books

My young kids love Faulkner!

Nichole Bernier
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Margot Mifflin
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