Children’s books

Brighter Side: a love letter to children’s books

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer I first met The Little Prince as a child, but it feels more accurate to say the book met —  and saw — through me. It told me that imagination was not foolish, that love and grief were bound together, and that growing up doesn’t mean surrendering wonder. I wept when the Little Prince left, but I also learned that love lives on in the stars and memory.  That was the beginning of a lifelong love of children’s books. It returned when I needed it most, during my fourth year of undergrad, overwhelmed by deadlines…

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