As you’ll recall, at the end of last week’s episode, Claire was in the middle of being commandeered by a ship full of authoritative teenagers. Her services will be used to treat the rampant typhoid fever aboard that vessel. But try selling that noble purpose to Jamie, furious aboard his own ship, at the sight […]
This year, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle’s epic tale of an insect who tries and tries but cannot quench the insatiable hunger that drives him, turns 45, which is coincidentally the number of times I have read it out loud to my two-year-old this week. It’s easy to see why the book has endured. […]
I can already imagine the Hollywood pitch for a film adaptation of Ratscalibur, the newest middle grade novel by New York Times best-selling writer Josh Lieb, author of I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President.