storybooks

To see what was once safe become savage, and to have our core values handily disassembled by a reality that's larger and more vicious than our storybooks is part of growing up.

Archive 2008-04-01 SVGL 2008

His mother reminds him that magic only occurs in storybooks.

The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Questions 2003

The schools did teach those things, but when the illiterate ex-slaves listened to their teachers read from storybooks like John Freeman and His Family, they heard a very different kind of lesson.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

He was dark, and oh so handsome—just as the storybooks foretold.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

He was dark, and oh so handsome—just as the storybooks foretold.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

Thanks to her excellent memory, she recalled the words of these hymns, and when Henry and Alex were too young for storybooks, she would sing the hymns as lullabies.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

She would read picture books, “how to” books, storybooks, and she had even begun reading short chapter books.

E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011

Thanks to her excellent memory, she recalled the words of these hymns, and when Henry and Alex were too young for storybooks, she would sing the hymns as lullabies.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

She would read picture books, “how to” books, storybooks, and she had even begun reading short chapter books.

E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011

And as we well know, storybooks rarely mesh with reality.

No fairytale ending for Egypt Jonathan Capehart 2011