As a children’s literature professor who specializes in the connections between young people’s rights and their reading materials, few things bring me greater joy in December than my university students describing how much they’ve learned about the potential of child-centered literature to empower child readers.
Few things, that is, except my own toddler proclaiming “Cooooooozy!” in the early dusk of a cold December afternoon, after we’ve finished a particularly satisfying book. Cozy is her highest literary praise.
