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    Why We're Reading Beowulf In The Bathtub

    NPR's new kids' fiction column — by Juanita Giles, founder of the Virginia Children's Book Festival — kicks off with an explanation of why the epic poem Beowulf is the perfect bathtime read.
    by Juanita Giles Jun 22, 2019 4 minutes
    Source: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

    A few days ago my friend Julie confessed she had never read Bridge to Terabithia. To quote Blanche Devereaux, "I am stunned! Just stunned! Stunned is the only way to describe how ... stunned I am!" I told her she had to read it immediately, but seeing as how I would never let my copy out of the house, she went and got her own that same day. Whew: Crisis averted.

    When I love something, I want everyone else to love it too (please love it Julie!): That's especially true when it comes to books and exceptionally true when it comes to children's books (and let me tell you if you've never read by Audrey Vernick and Liz

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