Rich Rump is an ill-tempered “rich man” who accidentally receives Santa Claus’s pants from the dry cleaners and then refuses to return them. Featured in ...

Philip Nel
Philip Nel is director of the graduate program in children’s literature at Kansas State University. He is the author or coeditor of 11 books, the most recent of which is Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Refugee Stories for Young Readers
By Philip Nel
Today, more than half of the world’s refugees are children under the age of 18. That’s nearly 50 million young people, making this the worst child refugee ...