In their own ways, these four films—The Children's Hour, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Teachers' Lounge, and Monster—demonstrate how the classroom is held stringently within the social constraints of its time. In school, for the first time, parents are unable to control everything, and this anxiety of corruption is placed squarely on the shoulders of the teacher.| Bright Wall/Dark Room
How do we as parents, teachers, librarians, and authors decide which books are important for kids? With the range of possibilities delightfully wide, deep, and ever-growing, it’s hard to know…| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer