Julie Fogliano’s Just In Case You Want to Fly is a gentle, contemplative book about growing up. It’s about parents giving their children the gifts, no matter how quiet or small, to succeed and to navigate the world on their own. And it’s about the connection that binds a parent and child… because no matter how far they fly or who they become, they will always have home.
In Susan Cooper’s The Word Pirates, a ravenous band of pirates who eat words for breakfast gobble up the world’s greatest stories. But never fear–the Word Wizard and the children she reads to are on the case!
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.