The Golden Age of Children's Books....

...is now, according to Joseph Bottom over at the excellent Catholic web site First Things. Terrific article that may recall some fond memories for many of you. Money quote:

J.K. Rowling’s success doesn’t just give us a recent series to add as an incidental to the received canon. It also gives us a chance to rewrite the entire list of classic children’s books we’re all supposed to know — for Rowling makes visible the fact that we are actually living now in a golden age of children’s ­literature.

Anyhow, I thought this post would gets us a little closer to our original topic and keeps things going until the rest of us get on board. It might also give us some ideas about gifts; after all, a good children's book should give adults pleasure too.