James Thurber, “The 13 Clocks” (New York Review Children’s Editions, 2008)
Seth Lerer, “Children's Literature: A Reader's History” (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

It wasn’t a dark and stormy night. Most likely, it was a long, boring summer afternoon at my English grandparents’ Oxfordshire country house. I would have been rambling around the motionless [...]