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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 > >-- >Kenneth Wolman >Proposal Development Department >Room SW334 >Sarnoff Corporation >609-734-2538