Kidoinfo Editor
Nancy King is a recent transplant to Rhode Island, having moved here from San Francisco with her husband and daughter. A native New Yorker, Nancy was eager to be closer to her family and to reconnect with the city that was her home for thirty-plus years. She works as a freelance book editor on projects ranging from health and fitness to pop culture and kids’ titles. Particular favorites have included The Pop Up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns and Cowboy Boots: Art and Soul.
By Nancy King Do you have a system for organizing all the treasures that come home with your child from school seemingly every day? I’m not talking about the three-dimensional art work (or the 6-foot wooden plank decorated with plaster T-rex bones my daughter was “lucky” enough to walk away with after her class studied [...]
By Nancy King I generally like to believe that a woman can do a man’s job (unless it involves lifting something really heavy, in foul weather, or wearing a hideous uniform). But, when it comes to Sunday mornings in our house, there’s something I can’t do: make my husband’s special-recipe, freakishly yummy pancakes. And frankly, [...]
By Nancy King I am not embarrassed to admit that I have wept while reading certain children’s books. The Dot by Peter Reynolds and David Macaulay’s Angelo immediately spring to mind but I know there have been others. These aren’t sad books (well, Angelo is a little sad)-they are stories that get at something both [...]
By Nancy King Don’t you find that there are so many children’s books and yet so few that are really, remarkably, read-them-again-and-again good? Well, get your hands on a copy of The One and Only Marigold by Florence Parry Heide. It’s actually four short stories in one, centered on the irresistible—and incorrigible—Marigold, whose last hobby [...]
By Nancy King Lots about parenthood hasn’t changed—it’s demanding, miraculous, enriching, frightening at times—but lots has changed. Just consider the role of fathers: no longer casual observers, dads are fully engaged partners in the process of raising their children. They attend OB/GYN appointments with their wives, pick out baby gear, and handle the 3:00 a.m. [...]
