A Royal Hot Mess Not Written for Kids: What if I told you Beauty and the Beast were kissing cousins?! If you’ve been thinking Beauty and the Beast is just that cute Disney romance, bless your heart — you’ve been…
The Beauty and the Beast
The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle
Welcome to the Midnight Carnival: The hag that outshined the whole dang thang… bless it. When I picked up The Last Unicorn, my heart was already galloping. This was the story behind one of my favorite childhood films—talking butterflies, enchanted forests, a…
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Welcome to the Henhouse of Horror: It’s not fiction if we’re living it! At first glance, Animal Farm might look like a silly barnyard bedtime story—pigs on soapboxes, chickens forming committees, and horses quoting slogans like it’s the County Fair….
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Electric Shock and Chill: Turning a Nursery into a Nightmare! When Yuval Noah Harari of the World Economic Forum called Brave New World “the most prophetic book of the twentieth century,” I didn’t simply dismiss the comment with an eye…
Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
When Nursery Rhymes Turn Violent Step into Chapter 6, where child care is chaos, dinner may kill you, and the cat’s the only one with any sense. I cracked open Alice in Wonderland thinking I was in for a…
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Killer Dress… The Death of House Hamlet: In the royal court of Denmark, Ophelia was a fragile bloom caught amidst a thicket of ungodly men, whose hearts were poisoned with pride, greed, lust, and wrath. Like a lamb among wolves,…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Family, Chewed Up and Spit Out: The Brat Who Stole the Show (and Her Mother’s Dignity) in the Most Disturbing Chapter Roald Dahl Ever Wrote! There are two kinds of folks in this world: the ones who read Charlie…