Why should every adult read books written for children?

I mean, the one that stands out would be green eggs and ham, only in the sense that it's

a book.

I never got sick of reading.

Bruce Handy will be here to talk about his new book, Wild Things, the joy of reading

children's literature as an adult.

How clear-cut is the line between life and death?

Many thousands of other patients around the world are diagnosed as being in a vegetative

state.

When we put her into the scanner, we saw actually something quite different.

Neuroscientist Adrian Owen will tell us about his new book, Into the Grey Zone.

And Carl Siggle, who we all know here, will talk to us about her new role as Staff Book

Critic for the New York Times.

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Bruce Handy is here now to talk about his first book.

It's called Wild Things, the joy of reading children's literature as an adult.

Bruce, thanks for being here.

Well, thanks so much for having me, Pamela.

Well, this is a topic that I like, as you know, as the former children's book editor.

And you often my editor?

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