Just as They Play Our Song

Public library c. 1930s

That was a bad joke. Sorry.

tatyana alanis

And like. Allowing for the fact that there absolutely are adults who think every distressing topic ever should be banned from children's literature - they're children's books. You were allowed to read them when you were a kid because they were written for kids. Bridge to Terabithia is also a children's book. So is Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and The Giver and loads of other books that deal with heavy, difficult topics. It is appropriate and good for children to have books about these things that are tailored to their reading levels and it genuinely really bugs me when people act like they're somehow not really for kids because bad things happen in them or they end tragically.

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Breakfast Sandwich

© David Bailey (2008)

Barbarella (1968) dir. Roger Vadim

1975

Tyler Pennington

Interior (Model reading) - Edward Hopper, 1925