Alison Croggon wrote:
>Hi Ken
>
>Maurice Sendak has long been a favourite author of mine. It's been a while
>since I had to read him, though - In the Night Kitchen and Where the Wild
>Things Are were my favourites, because they are so great to read out loud.
>(It's a real test of a book - anyone who thinks pasteboard books are easy to
>write should be forced to read their limp lines and bathetic sentiments out
>loud forever and ever - I remember in particular one horrible book about
>bunnies that for some reason my kids demanded night after night - the only
>book I have ever thrown away). No easier than writing poems, I think -
>
>Best
>
>A
>
>
Especially when my boys were...boys...I used to think about trying to do
that. Write children's books, I mean. Some recessive sanity gene would
reassert itself and talk me out of making a complete jerk of myself:-).
ken
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