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Article: A Treasury for Today's Kids.(Book Review)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 31, 2002
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The National Review Treasury of Classic Children's Literature, selected by William F. Buckley Jr. (National Review, 528 pp., $29.95)
The first thing I ever read to my oldest child, now a spirited boy of five, was an article in Commentary magazine by Francis Fukuyama. Brendan was a baby then (a neocon -- literally!), his mother was away somewhere, and the kid needed a nap. No amount of rocking him in my arms, feeding him a bottle, or simply setting him in his crib would work. So I decided to read him something in what I hoped would be the soothing sounds of my voice.
The experiment was a success -- for about eight or nine minutes, at which point the boy ...