>>>FWIW, I was raised on Milne--the books, not the movie...
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>Those were different days... even though Arnold in Kindergarten Cop read kids to sleep with a passage from Milne, I suspect fewer kids are charmed these days by those antique interactions. Swallows and Amazons, ditto. More likely to involve excited million-mile-per-second gabble or shorthand twittering about Kardashians behaving badly these days.

Actually, there continue to be great books for kids. We are now fortunate enough to have a neighborhood story, a tiny little story (in fact, the front part of another store) with a highly curated collection, and the kids section is full of terrific-looking books, many unfamiliar to me.

Tamar