Adam Gopnik wrote for the New Yorker in October: Our cult of decade anniversaries—the tenth of 9/11, the twentieth of “Nevermind”—are for the most part mere accidents of our fingers: because we’ve got five on each hand, we count things out in tens and hundreds. And yet the fifty-year birthday of a good children’s book marks a real passage, since it means that the book hasn’t been passed just from parent to child but from parent to child and on to child again.[More]
NPR played an interview with Norman Juster on November 29th.
Both sources gave me intriguing information about this classic, that I admit, I haven't read. Using World Cat shows me the nearest library that owns the book. I'm going to use Inter Library Loan to borrow a copy and read this work!
-kss
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