2017: Marking the Rise of the Almighty Board Book

It’s not as though board books have ever really gotten their due. Doomed to withstand the incessant chompers of teeny tiny gums, half the time they are mistaken for chew toys and the other half as portable germ factories. Here’s a test. Walk into your local library. Look long and hard at the board book section. If the section is filled with pristine board books, bereft of so much as a single droplet of baby spit then either (A) your town has no babies in it or (B) your library is rolling in d...