are awesome. Have you seen them? If not, watch them! Seriously. All three of us love My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service. I’m sorry, but if you don’t like these two movies, I really think there must be something wrong with you, and you should get that checked out. My Neighbor Totoro is so [...]
A recent post at Anna Cook’s Future Feminist Librarian-Activist got me thinking about movies for the holiday season. Each year, Eric and I watch a movie together on Christmas Eve and then another one on Christmas day; we choose movies we haven’t seen (or that at least one of us hasn’t seen). So those can [...]
My son was, by no fault of our own, exposed to part or all of the 2009 children’s film G-Force at his old school, and he’s decided he wants us to borrow it from the public library so he can share its glory with us. It sounds pretty dreadful. Usually the kid has admirable taste, [...]
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan’s Magic School Bus books weren’t part of my childhood. So I was surprised at the universal familiarity and popularity of these books (and particularly of the TV show of the same title) when I taught The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor in my college-level children’s literature course this [...]
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a sweet, weird little film for your viewing pleasure
I offer you: Kurt Kuenne’s short film “Validation.” Hat tip to the lovely Anna J. Cook, who says: “It’s 16:24 and I swear it’s worth it. Make time in your day. You’ll thank us.”