Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Maisy, the indomitable girl-mouse heroine of children's board books for more than 25 years, could well have been a moppet called Sally.

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) For the past eight years, off and on, I’ve been reading picture books aloud to my children. You read the same book out ...