In the Beginning Was the Name by Adam Gidwitz

The re-blog today discloses a kid-lit author sensitive to the emotional investment kids have to make to read a new book; and, he’s also aware of kids’ “moral imaginations”…

In the beginning was the Name.

I was sitting in a hotel room, somewhere in America, during a long stretch of school visits. I was thinking about kids and their reading habits, which was pretty typical. Specifically, I was remembering my days teaching second grade, and a certain type of long, slow walk aroun...