THERE never has been a time when childhood has not been a theme for poet and painter. The plume of the warrior Hector nods in the face of the little Astyanax ; the fate-driven Œdipus gropes in the ...

To hunt through English literature and art for representations of childhood would seem to be like looking for the persons of children in any place where people congregate. How could there be any ...

Professor of Writing and Liberal Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design Hanging on the wall in my office is the framed cover of the inaugural issue of The Brownies’ Book, a monthly periodical for ...

I’ve often thought I must be the only person who never experienced Goodnight Moon as a child. For millions of people around the world (the book’s been translated into over a dozen languages) it has ...