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- From: saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski)
- Subject: Re: Publishing Children's Books?
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:40:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep7.185620.2023@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Sep8.032855.20659@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1992Sep8.093720.26059@reed.edu> <1992Sep9.125736.18573@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Sep9.125736.18573@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling) writes:
- |> In article <1992Sep8.093720.26059@reed.edu> ehudon@reed.edu (Elizabeth Hudon) writes:
- |> ..
- |> >
- |> >It often seems that writers of children's books aren't taken seriously
- |> >as writers--as though it was a step on the way to becoming a "real"
- |> >writer. (There's even a branch of feminist theory which argues that
- |> >women writers were pushed to write children's fiction because it was
- |> >easier to do than "serious" writing.)
- |>
- |> All you potential children's writers out there might be interested to
- |> know that Graham Greene wrote 3 or so children's stories. One is
- |> called The Little Red Fire Engine I believe. Now you could never
- |> accuse him of not being a serious writer.
- |>
- |> Nigel
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- Seems to me Dr.Seuss has been sitting on the best seller list for a long
- time with _Oh, the Places You'll Go_. Maybe not serious writing, but
- serious money. (Of course, it's serious, and very good, writing as well.)
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