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Whether it’s Charlotte’s Web or the Adventures of Winnie the Pooh or the Harry Potter series, we all have our childhood favorites. But rereading them as adults can do more for us than just bring on a wave of nostalgia.
Bruce Handy, author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult, joins us to make the case for reading titles like Cat in the Hat and Anne of Green Gables.
This segment was produced by Meha Ahmad.