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Valentine’s Day and the Oracles of the Playground

February 14, 2002

It’s Valentine’s Day, and Fiona Barnes has some reflections on children’s cherished lore of love.

Puppy Love

February 13, 2002

Valentine’s Day tomorrow has Shelley Fraser Mickle thinking about those infatuations we call “puppy love.”

“Welcome to the World,” A Valentine for Newborns

February 12, 2002

You’re hearing the Baka Pygmie people from the forests of Cameroon with parents teaching their children a nursery rhyme about what the heart says.

Tent Boy

February 14, 2001

It’s Valentine’s Day, and here’s Barry Stewart Mann with a story about love, and play, and imagination.

Shelley’s Valentines

February 10, 2000

Here’s a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering, just in time for Valentine’s Day.