Patricia Maurer

I love books, especially children’s picture books. Recent stories of parents prowling libraries for books considered potentially damaging to children disturb me. I understand “age appropriate” and am not a raving liberal with a subversive agenda. My agenda, when picking books to read over and over again to young children, is clear, and I own it. I choose books celebrating well-written language, books lyrical and beautifully illustrated, books woven with threads of kindness, compassion, reveren…