Catherine Crawford

Catherine Crawford has written for Babble, Cafe Mom, Slate, and The Huffington Post. She edited the book If You Really Want to Hear About It: Writers on JD Salinger and His Work, and her book French Twist: An American Mom's Experiment in Parisian Parenting, will be published by Ballantine/Random House this March. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.

What was your favorite childhood toy?

Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine, which I had for about four days before my brothers broke it