One of the millions of things I’d love to study, and never will, is how regionalism affects children’s taste in books. Why is a book in one part of the country adored beyond measure by kids while in another part they wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot-pole? When I moved to Evanston, Illinois I was very keen to see what these Midwestern kids were reading these days. What separated them from their NYC ilk? And there were some small differences here and there, but generally they liked all the same s...
Published on November 04, 2020 21:00