Friday, May 11, 2012

The Pleasures of Children's Literature by Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer (In which Phaedra has decided she's addressing her fans, apparently)

"That's me walking over a bridge.  I'm walking over a bridge!  Can't you see me?  Doesn't it look fun to you?  And even you can love Phaedra any way you like.  Love, Phaedra.  And even you can believe in me.  And I believe that allllll the streams float down, and make water come everywhere.  Thanks.  And i believe that dreams can come everywhere, and that water is good for everyone to drink too.  Will you type that?  Bye!"

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Monday, May 7, 2012

The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins (via Project Gutenberg and paper from one of my former employers)


"It's my tiger, I mean my lion.  It's trying to lay down, but it's too old, and you should never, ever try to touch a lion.  Love, Phaedra."

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

"Is Harry Potter Harmful to Children?" by Deborah J. Taub and Heather L. Servaty-Seib

"That's Bella wearing her bathing suit.  
Those brown marks are her footprints from walking around at the beach."

Sunday, April 29, 2012

"Sweetney Among the Nightingales" by T.S. Eliot

"And this is an alien.  He's kind of like E.T., except a different color.  He's E.T.'s friend.  Yeah, I'm still afraid of E.T."


"Reader Response and Interpretive Perspectives" from Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, edited by Elizabeth E. Heilman

"This is a picture of me in my bathing suit!...That purple thing is me wearing that kind of thing that women had to wear when they weren't allowed to get their hair wet when they went swimming.  Don't you remember when you told me that?"