About those KinderGuides…

I had to read and reread PW’s piece aboutKinderGuides, because I thought it had to be a joke. But evidentlyit isn’t. So then I figured I’d put my fingers in my ears and say “lalala” so as to pretend they didn’t exist. Until today whenAllison Flood’s sharp piece, “Children Don’t Really Need a Picture-Book Version of On the Road,” in theGuardianforced my irritated fingers out of my ears and on to my keyboard.

According to their website, this is a series that will

introduce some of the most ico...