Word: beene
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Singer is not the only contemporary "serious" writer to have sought a small audience. Novelists and poets like John Updike, Randall Jarrell, Alison Lurie, John Gardner, Elizabeth Janeway and Ursula Le Guin have produced exemplary children's books. Of course, scholars and artists are not new to the libraries...
This is not to say that all is dragon-free in the world of children's literature. The fragmentation of the nuclear family, the new consciousness of black and women's history and of human rights in general have engendered a series of "problem books" that confuse as...
"We who work on children's books inhabit a sort of literary shtetl," says Sendak. "When I won a prize for Wild Things, my father spoke for a great many critics when he asked whether I would now be allowed to work on 'real' books." It is...
Most of his drawings are in the possession of the Rosenbach Foundation in Philadelphia; the few that come up for sale fetch prices of up to $12,000 each. For a man who describes himself as "a solitary and an agonizingly slow worker," Sendak has had an uncharacteristically gregarious year...
During her first months in the hospital, she was so helpless that she could not even do what she longed to do-take her own life. She begged a girlfriend to do it for her several times, but the friend refused. Encased in a canvas Stryker frame, Eareckson felt life...