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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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Sylvia Plath: Mrs Cherry's Kitchen
IN 2000, FABER FABER launched Faber Children's Classics, a series of books with uniform trade dressings that included works such as The Complete Nonesense by... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sylvia Plath: the It-doesn't-matter Suit
THE THING ABOUT POSTHUMOUS WORKS is that it can be difficult to asses a "newly discovered" story in the appropriate context in a writer's career. Read more
Posted on 30 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Three Years
TODAY MARKS THE THREE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie. The number of posts has gone down each year, but my commitment to the blog has... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sylvia Plath: the Bed Book
IT MAY BE HARD TO RECONCILE the idea of Sylvia Plath, the patron saint of suicide, the confessional chronicler of depression, with her children's books. Read more
Posted on 11 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Guest Post on Vkbmkl: Sinnickson's Wizard of Oz
IN HONOR OF THE NEW OZ MOVIE, I've contributed this beautiful Wonder Books edition to the greatest kids' book blog there is, Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves.... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Carson Mccullers: Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig
CARSON MCCULLERS WROTE ABOUT CHILDHOOD. Her two most famous works, the novels The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Member of the Wedding (later adapted for the... Read more
Posted on 12 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Upton Sinclair: the Gnomobile Illustrated by Marcel Tillard
I HAVE ALREADY WRITTEN extensively on both Upton Sinclair's novel The Gnomobile, and the Walt Disney movie it inspired. In my original post, I talked about the... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
J.r.r. Tolkien: the Father Christmas Letters
WITH THE HOBBIT COMING OUT IN THEATERS and Christmas only two weeks away, the time is right to bring out J.R.R. Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters. Read more
Posted on 11 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Walt Disney Presents the Gnome-mobile
IF A CHILDREN'S BOOK by Upton Sinclair seems unlikely, then a Walt Disney movie based on an Upton Sinclair children's book seems almost impossible. Read more
Posted on 29 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
John O'hara Cosgrave Ii: Illustrator
ACCORDING TO HIS ENTRY in Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975, John O'Hara Cosgrave II, illustrator of Upton Sinclair's Gnomobile, was an illustrator, painter... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Upton Sinclair: the Gnomobile
WHEN THE TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD UPTON SINCLAIR published his muckraking classic The Jungle in 1906, he had been a professional writer for twelve years. Read more
Posted on 15 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
James Joyce: the Cats of Copenhagen
BACK IN FEBRUARY, my post on James Joyce's picture book The Cat and the Devil went slightly viral when it was announced that a small Irish publisher would be... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Review Roundup: The Twenty-Year Death
BEFORE I PUBLISHED A BOOK, I had never been on Facebook. But in the lead up to the releases of One of a Kind and The Twenty-Year Death, I started a Facebook pag... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Guest Post on Vkbmkl: the Little Woman Wanted Noise
I HAVE A GUEST POST on Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves today, The Little Woman Wanted Noise by Val Teal, illustrations by Robert "The Story of Ferdinand"... Read more
Posted on 15 August 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Twenty-year Death
IT'S BEEN QUIET here on We Too Were Children, but with good reason. My novel for adults The Twenty-Year Death comes out on August 7th. The L.A. Times today call... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Gertrude Stein: the World is Round, Francis Rose Illustrations
WHEN GETRUDE STEIN WROTE THE WORLD IS ROUND, her first choice for illustrator was one of her protégés, the painter Sir Francis Rose. Her editors, William Scott... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Happy Father's Day
SORRY I'VE BEEN M.I.A. As you may have noticed, my picture book One of a Kind came out at the beginning of the month. I was at Book Expo America that whole week... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Umberto Eco: the Gnomes of Gnù
A LITTLE OVER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after they published their first two children's books, Umberto Eco and Eugenio Carmi published the ecological parable The... Read more
Posted on 16 May 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Two Whole Years
. It's been two whole years since I launched We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie. I may not post as often as I wanted to in the beginning, (I thought I'd get a... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
ETIENNE DELESSERT: BEING GREEN (Guest Post on Vintage Kids' Books)
LAST MONTH I POSTED an interview with master children's illustrator Etienne Delessert regarding his work with Eugène Ionesco. One of the Delessert treasures tha... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE