There are several adult classics and sub-classics that began as parents
telling stories to the kids: Wind in the Willows (if memory serves), The
Hobbit etc, Watership Downs, and to my mind the best, Jaime de Angulo's
Indian Tales. I'm sure Ieft out a couple of dozen others.
Mark
At 04:31 PM 2/25/2005, you wrote:
>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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