Goodnight Moon
A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
classics + family
12 books tagged both “classics” and “family”.
Mansfield Park
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
2,389-word summary · 11 min read
The Karamazov Brothers
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
2,512-word summary · 11 min read
A Light in the Attic
Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.
2,998-word summary · 13 min read
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift her out.
2,485-word summary · 11 min read
Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.
2,158-word summary · 10 min read
The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese mothers and four American daughters trade sixteen stories across the mahjong table.
1,941-word summary · 9 min read
The Red Tent
Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.
2,014-word summary · 9 min read
Matilda
Brilliant Matilda Wormwood teaches herself to read, faces her crooked parents and the fearsome Miss Trunchbull, and finds Miss Honey.
2,296-word summary · 10 min read
The Grapes of Wrath
The Joads lose their Oklahoma farm and drive to California for work that is not there.
3,400-word summary · 15 min read
The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect, cannot go to work, and watches his family shift from shock to cold relief.
2,295-word summary · 10 min read
Little Women
Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.
2,487-word summary · 11 min read