What we’re reading today:
Tina Fey writes an essay for this week’s New Yorker. Her 5-year-old daughter brought home a book called My Working Mom about a kid who doesn’t like how hard her witch mother works. Literally, a witch. Fey writes, “I’m sure the two men who wrote this had the best of intentions.” She also says that the worst question you can ask a working mom is, “How do you juggle it all?” For those of us who haven’t yet cracked through that New Yorker pay wall, Salon‘s Mary Elizabeth Williams has a good summary. For how hilarious Tina Fey is, we love when she gets all serious and stuff.
And it you don’t want to read My Working Mom, check out any of a million iPad storybook apps. NPR’s Omar Gallaga gets his 3-year-old daughter to help him review them. They like Jack and the Beanstalk because you can shake the giant on the beanstalk. We’re sold. Via Boy Reporter.
Bunch loves Art Spiegelman‘s series of children’s graphic novels, Little Lit. When Spiegelman put out a call for authors for the third collection in the series: It Was a Dark and Silly Night, Neil Gaiman was an obvious selection and New Yorker cartoonist, Gahan Wilson was chosen to illustrate his contribution. Now, as a lead-in to the Gahan Wilson biography, “Born Dead, Still Weird” , this animated version of the story has been released. It’s really charming, a little spooky and a whole lot of fun!
[via The New Yorker]
