Unboxing Barnaby vol. 5: THE GRAND FINALE!

Barnaby, Comics, Crockett Johnson, , 1 Comment

Take a break from calling your reps. For just a few minutes, stop doomscrolling and gloomposting. As you watch me open a box of books, you are also witnessing the successful completion of a 15-year-project… the publication in full and for the first time of Crockett Johnson’s classic comic strip Barnaby! That’s right, Barnaby Volume

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Children's Literature as Public Humanities. CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers: MLA, Jan. 8-11, 2006, Toronto

Call for Papers, Children's Literature, Humanities, MLA

Children’s Literature As Public Humanities CFP for a non-guaranteed session sponsored by the MLA Forum on Children’s and Young Adult Literature. To be held at the 2026 MLA in Toronto, January 8-11, 2026. This roundtable invites consideration of children’s literature as public humanities. In distilling complex ideas into emotionally resonant stories, books for children and young

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