Three Gems by Children's Author Cynthia Rylant

By Daniel Wahl

Of all the great books my family and I have enjoyed, I found it difficult to narrow the list to those I discussed in “A Dozen Great Books for Young Children” (TOS, Fall 2015). Yet, as high as the bar was for inclusion in that article, two books by Cynthia Rylant made the cut.

Each of those books, Poppleton and Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas is a …