And long before Fancy Nancy showed off her vocabulary, publisher Clifton Fadiman wrote about Wally, a bookworm who discovered words like syzygy and chimera. Established adult authors, like Aldous Huxley and Gertrude Stein, could write children's books that still maintained their individual style. A writer like Beverly Cleary could turn away from Ramona and Beezus for a while in order to write an Otis Spofford or Mitch and Amy. But I sometimes wonder whether today's kids are being exposed to the more obscure children's books that I, and generations before me, loved.Īs wonderful as today's hot kids' books are, there's something to be said for the days when authors didn't have to worry about creating characters that could easily be turned into merchandise and Nickelodeon cartoons. I've followed the adventures of Judy Moody, the Weird School, and Junie B. I appreciate the girl-power individuality of Pinkalicious, Ada Twist, and Ladybug Girl. I can quote the hot literary cats (Pete, Splat, and the Cat in the Hat) by heart. As a preschool teacher and a mom, I'm well-versed in all of today's best-selling books.
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