Picture this: it’s nine o’clock on a warm summer evening. You’re nestled into bed with your lamp illuminating your room and the serenading sonance of crickets outside. Yearning to lean away from an oncoming slumber, your parents divulge you with the passing pictures and prose of a paperback in the hopes that you might finally settle down. With big-name authors such as Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, Eric Carle, and Mary Pope Osborne, or even lesser-knowns like Helen Lester, Patricia Polacco, Mercer Mayer, and David Biedrzycki, there was nothing more calming and cherished than a children’s book. Zoomers Retrospective host Joel Bierbower addresses some of his favorite children’s books as well as the importance of the genre as a whole.
