Winterthorn
Ariel S. Winter is the author of We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie
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We too Were Children, Mr. Barrie
http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/
After years of finding children’s books tucked away in authors’ bibliographies (Graham Greene wrote children’s books!), followed by quick disappointment (how can they be out of print?), I realized that I was having this same frustrating revelation over and over. And when I would bring these discoveries up with my friends, they would have the same reaction (John Updike wrote children’s books! How can they be out of print?) The goal of this blog is to make more widely known these much-coveted literary rarities (and perhaps stir up enough interest to bring them back into print).
LATEST ARTICLES ( 83 )
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Barren Cove Available April 26, 2016
IT HAS BEEN LONG ENOUGH SINCE I last posted on We Too Were Children that I have to admit the blog is defunct. There are still a lot of books I want to highlight... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Margaret Mead: an Interview with Santa Claus
MARGARET MEAD HAD THE DISTINCTION, perhaps still has the distinction, of being the most famous anthropologist in the world. Close to the birth of modern... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Isak Dinesen on Hans Christian Andersen
I HAVE SAVED THE BEST INTRODUCTION in Michael Di Capua's 1962 series of classic fairy stories for last. Isak Dinesen may now be best remembered for her memoir... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Wild Things!
IF YOU FOLLOW MY BLOG, you are most likely interested in the esoterica of children's books: forgotten classics, eye-opening stories that make you reconsider... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Elizabeth Bowen on Ruskin's King of the Golden River
JOHN RUSKIN IS BEST KNOWN as a highly influential 19th century art and architecture critic most famous for his three-volume treatise The Stones of Venice... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Jean Stafford: the Lion and the Carpenter
JEAN STAFFORD WAS THE ONLY CONTRIBUTOR other than Randall Jarrell to write the stories in her volume of fairy tales for Macmillan's 1962 series of oversized... Read more
Posted on 07 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
John Updike on Oscar Wilde's Fairy Stories
MANY YEARS AGO, in the early days of We Too Were Children, I invoked Rachel Cohen's superb book A Chance Meeting, which describes the ways in which literary... Read more
Posted on 24 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Randall Jarrell: the Gingerbread Rabbit
AFTER RECEIVING RANDALL JARRELL'S TRANSLATIONS for The Brothers Grimm, his editor Michael di Capua suggested that Jarrell try his hand at an original... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Randall Jarrell: the Rabbit Catcher and Other Fairy Tales of Ludwig Bechstein
"EVERYBODY has read some of Grimm's Tales," writes Randall Jarrell in his introduction to The Rabbit Catcher and Other Fairy Tales of Ludwig Bechstein, "but it... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Randall Jarrell's Grimm: the Illustrators
WHEN NANCY EKHOLM BURKERT'S picture book Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs was published in 1972, John Gardner writing in The New York Times said, "People who car... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Randall Jarrell: the Golden Bird and Other Tales of the Brothers Grimm
IN THE WINTER OF 1962, Randall Jarrell, the former United States Poet Laureate and recipient of the 1961 National Book Award for Poetry, was bedridden with... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Pearl s. Buck: the Christmas Mouse
TALK ABOUT GETTING a lot of mileage out of one story. We have already looked at Christmas Miniature by Pearl S. Buck as it appeared in Family Circle Magazine an... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Pearl s. Buck: Christmas Follow-up
SHORTLY BEFORE CHRISTMAS, I wrote about several of Pearl S. Buck's Christmas stories for children. At the time, I was still waiting to get my hands on some othe... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Pearl s. Buck: Christmas
PEARL S. BUCK WON THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE in 1938 "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces. Read more
Posted on 24 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Wendy Wasserstein in Thanks & Giving
PAMELA'S FIRST MUSICAL was Wendy Wasserstein's only children's book, but it wasn't the only thing she published with children as the intended audience. Read more
Posted on 21 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Wendy Wasserstein: Pamela's First Musical
WENDY WASSERSTEIN IS BEST KNOWN as a playwright. Her 1988 play The Heidi Chronicles won the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the New... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The World is Round Back in Print
LONG TIME READERS might remember a series I did almost two and a half years ago on Gertrude Stein's children's book The World Is Round. Read more
Posted on 09 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Patrick Eats His Peas by Geoffrey Hayes
REVIEWING NEW BOOKS is a little off topic for We Too Were Children, but I've been so negligent in my blogging that when my friends over at TOON Books asked if... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Little Woman Wanted Noise Back in Print
ALMOST EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO, I contributed a guest post to Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves on the book The Little Woman Wanted Noise by Val Teal with pictures... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sylvia Plath: "the Bull of Bendylaw"
NONE OF SYLVIA PLATH'S children's books were published in her lifetime, but she did see one children's poem in print: "The Bull of Bendylaw," which appeared in... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE