Bookish Diversions: Mere Child’s Play

Children’s Books, Kids’ Questions, Negative Book Reviews, the Biggest Book in China, More

¶ Children’s stories are usually set in the countryside or the city and rarely, if ever, in the suburbs. Why? Here’s one take. “Children’s literature thrives on imaginative or surprising encounters, which need a geography that creates mischief and curiosity. But the suburbs, for all their benefits in real life, are places that in children’s literature l…