Feminism and Representation in Fables: An Interview and Cover Reveal with Natalie Portman

It’s just the darndest thing.

Say, do you happen to remember when I published a book with Jules Danielson and Peter Sieruta a couple years ago called Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature? Do you recall that in that book we spent an entire chapter dedicated to celebrity picture books? I think our primary concern at the time was that publishers were spending inordinate amounts of money to promote books that were, to be frank, ill-planned, poorly written, and given about as...