Long Lost James Thurber/A History of Childrens’ Lit

James Thurber, “The 13 Clocks” (New York Review Children’s Editions, 2008) Seth Lerer, “Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History” (University of Chicago Press, 2008) It wasn’t a dark and stormy night. Most likely, it was a long, boring summer afternoon at my English grandparents’ Oxfordshire country house. I would have been rambling around the motionless house—where the ticking of an antique clock in the kitchen reverberated through several rooms—looking for a means of entertaining myself. Up