1. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper
2. This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen, Candlewick
3. Emeraldalicious by Victoria Kann, Harper
4. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Harper
5. I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen, Candlewick
6. Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann, Putnam
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, Putnam
8. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (Illus.), Chronicle
9. On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman, Feiwel & Friends
10. Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden
11. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt
12. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss, Random House
13. I Am a Bunny by Ole Risom, Richard Scarry (Illus.), Golden
14. Safari: A Photicular Book by Dan Kainen, Carol Kaufmann, Workman
15. Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss, Random House
Mark Sappenfield
Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.
But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.
We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”
If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.
