Six prominent children's authors, including Maurice Sendak, Rosemary Wells, and Jack Prelutsky, agree that to enter the worlds that children inhabit, you must possess the magic word - honesty.
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"No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory," writes William Zinsser in his introduction to Worlds of Childhood, "as the books that we met in our childhood." Reproduced here are essays by six celebrated children's book authors that came into being as a series of talks at the New York Public Library in 1989. Children's book writing is often deceptively simple, and perhaps the one overriding theme here is the seriousness with which these writers approach their work. "Writing for very young children is the most difficult discipline I know," says Rosemary Wells, whose Max and Ruby books were the first board books. (Does Wells find it so difficult in part because, as she says, "all really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times"?) Poet Jack Prelutsky, inventor of the "gloopy gloppers" and the "addle-pated paddlepuss," says he never condescends when he write for children. And Maurice Sendak, best known for his fantastically fuzzy wild things, says he's "never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures." --Jane Steinberg
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NO KIND of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, reverberating there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we met in our childhood, and when we grow up and read them to our own children they are the oldest of old friends. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Revere, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sweet Pea, Outside Over There, Maurice Sendak, Clive Wearing, Jack Prelutsky, Jean Fritz, Katherine Paterson, Miss Pym Disposes, Park's Quest, The Windhover, Timothy Goes, Worlds of Childhood, Beatrix Potter, Benedict Arnold, Grail Knight, John Brown New!
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NO KIND of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, reverberating there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we met in our childhood, and when we grow up and read them to our own children they are the oldest of old friends. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Revere, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sweet Pea, Outside Over There, Maurice Sendak, Clive Wearing, Jack Prelutsky, Jean Fritz, Katherine Paterson, Miss Pym Disposes, Park's Quest, The Windhover, Timothy Goes, Worlds of Childhood, Beatrix Potter, Benedict Arnold, Grail Knight, John Brown New!
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- How It Feels When a Parent Dies by Jill Krementz on page 6, page 10, and Back Matter
- Dear Mili: An Old Tale by Wilhelm Grimm on page 7, page 22, and Back Matter
- Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey on page 57, page 58, and Back Matter
- Outside Over There (Caldecott Collection) by Maurice Sendak on page 8, and Back Matter
- Amos & Boris by William Steig on page 47, and Back Matter
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- You Can Write Children's Books by Tracey E. Dils in Back Matter
- Newbery and Caldecott Trivia and More for Every Day of the Year: by Claudette Hegel in Back Matter
- Practicing Sociology: Selected Fields by Robert A. Dentler on page 69
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- The Art of Children's Picture Books: A Selective Reference Guide, Second Edition (Garland Medieval Casebooks) by Sylvia S. Marantz on page 163
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