Tips for children’s authors

The best part of babysitting (for me at least) is the bedtime story. My friend’s little girl agrees, boasting her very own baby Bodleian, chockfull of enchanting reads, typically about barnyard animals solving some moral conundrum or other. But occasionally, as I begin to nod off mid-sentence to the 5-year-old’s emphatic complaint, I find myself […]

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McLaren at 50

Bruce McLaren removes his helmet and retraces his steps, examining the debris strewn on the otherwise pristine Goodwood racetrack. The hopeful, dreamy sunshine is broken only by the rising black smoke from the stricken Can-Am sports car in which, just a few moments earlier, he had died. It is June 2, 1970. “What might be […]

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