Dr. Seuss
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Green Eggs and Nudes
Dr. Seuss isn’t just for kids. Brain Pickings has a look into Dr. Seuss’s little-known book for adults, The Seven Lady Godivas, which, you may guess by the title, features a lot of illustrations of naked ladies.
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This Week in Short Fiction
For a weekly dose of fiction, checking in at the New Yorker is probably business as usual for most, and this week it’s definitely worth scoping out Amelia Gray’s story, “Labyrinth.” It’s a story infused with Greek mythology, dark humor, and a…
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More Seuss!
“The creative vision of author and illustrator Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, introduced fantastic characters into the imaginations of generations of kids. Now, two decades after his death, a new book, The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories,…
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Economics for Kids
Children’s books are teaching all kinds of lessons and not just the morals-heavy, value-driven ones that are meant to stave off latent delinquency. Read between the lines of children’s lit and you can brush up on some conceptual economics. One…
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Not Lost, then Lost and Found
Searching for the lost, but once published stories of Dr. Seuss, Charles Cohen unearthed a slew of magazine covers that Ted Geisel had created back in the 1920’s. With some sleuth-style hunting, he found old magazines containing these stories and…