Saw this quote over at 7-Imp. Jules posted this quote from a 1939 letter from E.B. White:

I started to write a book for children about two years ago, and have it about half done...I really only go at it when I am laid up in bed, sick...My fears about writing for children are great---one can so easily slip into a cheap sort of whimsy or cuteness. I ( Read more... )

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Today, a return of my once-established Sunday tradition: a quoteskimming post. As it appears I sort of lost the habit back in July of this year, I shall explain what the word means. It's a term I coined in September 2007 - I shall be pulling some writing-related quotes from here and there and sharing them with you ( Read more... )

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Continuing my series on books that I read and loved as a child, today I'm talking about Charlotte's Web. I first read the book when I was about 8, and I read it at least twice more as a child. This book is a fascinating one, because the main character is a talking pig named Wilbur: not Charlotte the spider, found in the title, and not Fern, the ( Read more... )

It seems to me that the world of people who read books for pleasure falls into two camps: those who re-read books, and those who do not. And I seriously make no judgment on that either way, but as it so happens, I am among those in the re-reading camp.


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This may turn out to be an abbreviated post this week due to visiting family and the resulting time constraints.

On things to avoid in children's writing

So, the other day I blogged about my Elf love. And in the movie, Buddy the Elf's real father is a soulless children's book publisher. Now, I should note that I haven't met any actual children's ( Read more... )