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Why is good children's literature so powerful, so magical?

  Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and university lecturer in English. His Glad to Be Dad:  A Call to Fatherhood (Familius) is in both e-book and print form; it was featured on Parents Magazine’s website, Disney’s BabyZone, and won the Ben Franklin Digital Award.  His full-length Dear Beast Loveliness:  Poems of the Body (BlazeVox) earned an excellent review from poet Grace Cavalieri.  He's placed numerous pieces in top children's magazines ( Cricket , AppleSeeds , Storyworks , New Moon ), and has 11 children's books out (and three in press), which have won a number of awards and honors.  These include excellent reviews from Kirkus , SLJ , Booklist , and The New York Times , a short stint on The New York Times bestseller list for children's books, and adaptations of his works for drama and dance; in addition, Basho and the Fox was read aloud on NPR and Basho and the River Stones was one of three nominees for a California Yo...