Tag: book-reviews

  • Crying in the Archives: “Hid in the Heart” and a Diary of Grief

    Crying in the Archives: “Hid in the Heart” and a Diary of Grief

    I’ve spent three weeks of my summer in rainy, rainy, rainy (yes, it has rained every single day) Gainesville, Florida as the 2025 ALSC Bechtel Fellow, where I’ve been studying the papers of Margaret Sidney, a 19th century children’s novelist best known for The Five Little Peppers series. While I’ve been reading the books, my…