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- From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Publishing Children's Books?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.111030.7539@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 11:10:30 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.093720.26059@reed.edu> <1992Sep9.125736.18573@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1992Sep9.201123.15884@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
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- In article <1992Sep9.201123.15884@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca> marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson) writes:
- >In a recent misc.writing article, mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling) wrote:
- >
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- >This is exactly the sort of thing which irritates me. Why do we have to
- >know that Graeme Greene wrote serious adult fiction to call him a
- >serious writer? Answer: we don't. The fact that he wrote and published
- >3 children's books, in and of itself, makes him a serious writer.
-
- Oops, looks like I inadvertently ruffled somebody's feathers.
- I merely mentioned it as a point of general interest (I thought
- it was interesting anyhow).
-
- But I wouldn't be surprised if Greene himself would have described
- his children's stuff as `unserious'. Indeed, he distinguished his
- `entertainments' from his `more serious novels'. So there you are.
- To be honest it's up to the individual what they regard as serious.
- If someone doesn't regard children's writing as `serious' who the
- hell cares anyway?
-
- Nigel
-