School Library Journal, September 1st, 2000
A reviewer of kids' books talks to the writers who created them
MY ON-GOING FASCINATION WITH CHILDREN'S LITERATURE BEGAN when, as a college student, I spent a semester reading stacks of 150-year-old storybooks for schoolchildren. The authors of those books were, of course, long dead. A bit later, however, when an interest in poetry prompted me to write a biography of Margaret Wise Brown, I found myself meeting--and interviewing--dozens of children's book artists and writers, all friends of the late author of Goodnight Moon. I found that I liked everything about the interview process: the pr...
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