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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!mrccrc!doc.ic.ac.uk!syma!mapd1
  2. From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
  3. Newsgroups: misc.writing
  4. Subject: Re: Publishing Children's Books?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep9.125736.18573@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 9 Sep 92 12:57:36 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep7.185620.2023@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Sep8.032855.20659@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1992Sep8.093720.26059@reed.edu>
  8. Organization: University of Sussex
  9. Lines: 15
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  11. In article <1992Sep8.093720.26059@reed.edu> ehudon@reed.edu (Elizabeth Hudon) writes:
  12. ..
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  14. >It often seems that writers of children's books aren't taken seriously
  15. >as writers--as though it was a step on the way to becoming a "real"
  16. >writer. (There's even a branch of feminist theory which argues that
  17. >women writers were pushed to write children's fiction because it was
  18. >easier to do than "serious" writing.)
  19.  
  20. All you potential children's writers out there might be interested to
  21. know that Graham Greene wrote 3 or so children's stories. One is
  22. called The Little Red Fire Engine I believe. Now you could never
  23. accuse him of not being a serious writer.
  24.  
  25. Nigel
  26.