Un Crie de Coeur: The Masses Demand New Book Jackets (Please?)

Here we are on the cusp of summer. It always surprises me when the weather gets warm and yet the kids are still in school here in NYC. Still, they’ll be out soon enough, running into my libraries with their summer reading lists clenched in their hot little hands. Here in New York City each school, each teacher even, can have their own reading lists. There is absolutely no consensus amongst them. Some things in life are certain, however. By and large, the same books show up over and over on th...