The cover of Ralph's Secret Weapon by Steven Kellogg, featuring a small young boy playing bassoon with a large green sea dragon behind him with its mouth open
As I dig out from the end-of-the-semes­ter crunch, I see that I have start­ed quite a few blog posts in the last cou­ple of months with­out fin­ish­ing any of them. So while I get my act back togeth­er, here’s a repost from a pre­vi­ous incar­na­tion of my site: I don’t nor­mal­ly read chil­dren’s books, but Ralph’s Secret Weapon mer­it­ed an excep­tion. The book’s main char­ac­ter is unique (as far as I can tell) amongst char­ac­ters in chil­dren’s books: Ralph plays the bassoon. I don’t recall exact­ly how I became aware of the exis­tence of this book. I think that it may […]