What we’re reading today:
1. More schools are putting preschoolers in uniforms. Do they eliminate distractions or cut out creativity?
2. Ever get your kids to help you with your work? Check out this touching story about a crazy-busy editor who needs her son’s input on a new book.
3. Did you see that video about 18-month-old Baerke van der Meij with the great soccer ball technique? He’s been offered a contract with Dutch team that his grandfather played on. When reached for comment, Baerke said, “Ball.”
4. A mural legendary children’s author Maurice Sendak painted for a Manhattan family in 1961 has been removed from the house and placed, wall and all, in a Philadelphia museum. Read this interview with him. He’s 82 and sick and reflective.
