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Sarah Darer Littman

Sarah Darer Littman

“My French Teachers Never Told me That!” — or why we need to talk about slang.

There’s a well-known saying: “A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.” This applies to the study of foreign languages. Even when…

4 min readMar 27, 2022

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“My French Teachers Never Told me That!” — or why we need to talk about slang.

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Sarah Darer Littman

Driving a Convertible While Female

Ever since I was in high school, I dreamed of owning a convertible. What I actually drove in high school — shared with my brother -was my…

3 min readMar 25, 2022

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Driving a Convertible While Female

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Sarah Darer Littman

How to Create a Word Nerd

Parenting ideas to foster a love of language

3 min readMar 21, 2022

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Picture of a page from the Shorter Oxford English dictionary with tiny print

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Sarah Darer Littman

When Anxiety Has Historical Basis

It’s not irrational — it’s a survival mechanism.

3 min readMar 2, 2022

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When Anxiety Has Historical Basis

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Sarah Darer Littman

GOODNIGHT QANON

(with apologies to Margaret Wise Brown)

1 min readFeb 26, 2022

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Book cover of Goodnight Moon photoshopped to read Goodnight Q-Anon

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Sarah Darer Littman

BANNING BOOKS — An UnAmerica Act

“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.”

6 min readFeb 25, 2022

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child reading book: words have power read a banned book

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Sarah Darer Littman

How Ted Lasso Helped Me Reclaim My Writing Mojo

Warning: Contains spoilers for Season 2 Episode 5

5 min readFeb 21, 2022

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Soccer team from Ted Lasso touching a yellow sign that says BELIEVE

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Sarah Darer Littman

ABC shouldn’t have suspended Whoopi Goldberg

First things first. I’m not here to pile on to Whoopi. In fact, I think ABC News president Kim Godwin made a big mistake in suspending her.

3 min readFeb 3, 2022

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ABC shouldn’t have suspended Whoopi Goldberg

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Sarah Darer Littman

Then They Came for the Librarians…

Pay close attention to state and local politics

4 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Then They Came for the Librarians…

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Sarah Darer Littman

Why I support free speech, but Je Ne Suis Pas exactement Charlie

(This was originally published on January 16, 2015 on my TYPE A LITTLE FASTER blog. Reupping in light of the latest #charliehebdo…

3 min readMar 13, 2021

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Why I support free speech, but Je Ne Suis Pas exactement Charlie

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Sarah Darer Littman

Sarah Darer Littman

insatiably curious middle-grade/young adult author, writing mentor. SOME KIND OF HATE 11/1/22 Scholastic Press #medialiteracy sarahdarerlittman.com

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