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A young girl in a bright pink sweater is sleeping with her head on a round able. A wooden box of yarn and knitting needles sit in front of her. Two people in dark clothing loiter nearby, as if interested in stealing the box without waking her up.

Warm and fuzzy

by Kerry Reid February 23, 2023February 22, 2023

Charles Dickens’s schoolmaster Mr. Gradgrind from Hard Times (he who insists, “Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts”) would feel right at home in the grim factory town run by a petulant archduke in Mac Barnett’s 2012 children’s book Extra Yarn. There, young Annabelle and her schoolmates are […]