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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Warren Chappell Wrap up
AS PROMISED IN MY LAST POST, I have now posted illustrations from the four remaining Warren Chappell music books on my Flickr. The true masterpiece is Peter... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Warren Chappell
"A GOOD BIBLIOGRAPHY is needed to give a picture of the several hundred books I have made in the past sixty years, and so a sampling is all that can be attempte... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE -
John Updike: Bottom's Dream
AS PROMISED YESTERDAY, I have posted Bottom's Dream adapted from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by John Updike with music by Felix Mendelssohn... Read more
Posted on 02 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE -
John Updike: Warren Chappell's Music Series
OUTSIDE OF HIS MAGAZINE WORK, it is hard to imagine John Updike as a hired writer. But his entry into children's literature was just that, as a hired writer. Read more
Posted on 01 March 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
MOST BIOS OF NANCY EKHOLM BURKERT, illustrator of John Updike's A Child's Calendar, sum up her career as follows: she is the original illustrator of Roald Dahl'... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE -
John Updike: a Child's Calendar
JOHN UPDIKE was one of the most decorated American authors of the second half of the twentieth century. He won two National Book Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes,... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Good Night, Wendy: Leo Lionni
PEOPLE OFTEN ASK whether We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie ever goes the other way, ever examines adult work by children's authors. The answer, as of today, is... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE -
ANDY WARHOL: Card Games Are Fun
I HAVE WRITTEN PREVIOUSLY about Doubleday's Best In Children's Books series, and so quote myself: The phenomenal Best In Children's Books series published by... Read more
Posted on 14 January 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Merry Christmas
EVERYONE. In honor of the holiday, I offer a preview of a series I had hoped to post this calendar year that will have to wait for next. Read more
Posted on 22 December 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Feedback Please
YESTERDAY I FINISHED an exhaustive series on Langston Hughes's children's books, and with its close I want to take this opportunity to solicit feedback. Did... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2010 BOOKS -
Langston Hughes Wrap Up
MY ENTRIES FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS have focused on the children's books of Langston Hughes and his associates. Hughes was prolific in every form that he worked... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy: the Fast Sooner Hound
THREE YEARS BEFORE SLAPPY HOOPER and two years before their landmark They Seek a City, Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy had their biggest commercial success: The... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
CLIFF ROBERTS'S CHILDREN'S BOOKS (correction)
[CORRECTION: An unfinished version of this post was released earlier today. This post is meant to replace that erroneous post. My apologies for any confusion... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Langston Hughes: the Story of Jazz
ON THE FINAL PAGE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF JAZZ by Langston Hughes, just below the photograph credits, the following announcement appears:"The Story of Jazz,... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Langston Hughes: the First Book of Jazz
FOR LANGSTON HUGHES'S THIRD ENTRY in the First Books series, he turned his attention to a subject that was of great importance to him: jazz. Read more
Posted on 01 November 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Langston Hughes: the First Book of Rhythms
LANGSTON HUGHES'S SECOND BOOK for the Franklin Watts First Book series was The First Book of Rhythms (1954). Drawing heavily from a course Hughes taught at the... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Ursula Koering
THE FIRST BOOK OF NEGROES BY LANGSTON HUGHES and Slappy Hooper by Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy are just two of over two hundred books for children that Ursula... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy: Slappy Hooper
IN 1932, ARNA BONTEMPS AND LANGSTON HUGHES collaborated on the children's novel Popo and Fifina. Several years after that book, Bontemps began to collaborate... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Langston Hughes: the First Book of Negroes
WHEN LANGSTON HUGHES CAME TO PROMINENCE as the premier African-American poet in the late 1920s and early 1930s, many of his poems expressed anger over the... Read more
Posted on 10 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE -
E. Simms Campbell
THE ARTIST FOR LANGSTON HUGHES AND ARNA BONTEMP'S children's novel Popo and Fifina was the Jackie Robinson of commercial art and cartooning, E. Simms Campbell... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE