Ceridwen both alerted me to this book and said what it so brilliantly does. There are many things that can drive me crazy about the stories pitched at children, and perhaps Horrible Thing About Kids' Stories #2 is "The Lazy Deployment of Arbitrary and Tediously Familiar Narrative Conflicts." (This...
When you live with small children, you are often subjected to all sorts of media you would gladly ignore. Because I am cold-hearted, I have an absolute zero tolerance policy toward children's music, the Berenstein Bears are completely banished, and Rainbow Fish makes me want to fry him in butter. Th...
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