This is the latest in Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Notes From Storytime. To go to the column page, please click here. A friend tells me she’s taking a writing class with Lore Segal. How is it? I ask. We are sitting around my kitchen table. There is tea, etc. As you might imagine, she […]
Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: “The Bare Essentials: In the Night Kitchen”
November 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is the latest in Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Notes From Storytime. To go to the column page, please click here. Mickey’s penis was my first. I was four, maybe five. The book, Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen, must have been a gift, as I can’t imagine my parents having paid money for […]
Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: “Bread and Jam for Frances”
April 24, 2012 by 3 Comments
This is the latest in Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Notes From Storytime. To go to the column page, please click here. This winter witnessed the death of many great writers: Christopher Hitchens, Christa Wolf. Russell Hoban. At times an adman, an illustrator and novelist, Hoban was perhaps best known—in my household, at least—as the […]
Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: “The Magic Fish”
November 28, 2011 by 4 Comments
This is the latest in Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Notes From Storytime. To go to the column page, please click here. It is good to want things. We are brought up to want, and although the state of our country might indicate otherwise, ours is a nation founded on the ethos of hard work […]
Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: “The Missing Piece” by Shel Silverstein
September 26, 2011 by 1 Comment
This is the latest in Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Notes From Storytime. To go to the column page, please click here. An hour of the day when the light fills the page. A corner carol in the library carved with lovers’ initials, the window seat of a favorite coffee shop. A rolling ball pen, […]
Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: “On Legos and Monsters”
June 21, 2011 by 5 Comments
This is the latest in Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Notes From Storytime. To go to the column page, please click here. It’s been months since my last column because for a while now at bedtime we’ve been working on my son’s reading. My son just finished kindergarten and in kindergarten it’s all about reading […]
Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: “Frog and Toad Are Friends” by Arnold Lobel
March 11, 2011 by 1 Comment
This is the latest in Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Notes From Storytime. To go to the column page, please click here. Warning: Things are about to get earnest. But it’s been a brutal winter and now with the first green shoots muscling their way through the cracked earth I feel compelled to return to […]
Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Dare Wright’s “A Gift From the Lonely Doll”
January 9, 2011 by 2 Comments
This is the latest in Sara Lippmann’s Read it Loud: Notes From Storytime. To go to the column page, please click here. Dare Wright wrote creepy children’s books about talking teddy bears and a pouty doll who gets spanked for bad behavior. Although the photographs are lasting in a unsettling (if inappropriate) way, I am not suggesting […]
