Winterthorn

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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).

Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps: Popo and Fifina

IN 1902, two almost brothers unrelated by blood and unknown to each other were born eight and a half months apart. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE
James Joyce's the Cat and the Devil Back in Print!

MY VERY FIRST WE TOO WERE CHILDREN, MR. BARRIE POST was on James Joyce's letter-to-his-grandson-turned-picture-book The Cat and the Devil. Read more
Posted on 16 September 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE
Toni Morrison's Other Children's Books

AS PER THIS BLOG'S INTRODUCTION, We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie limits itself to twentieth-century, out-of-print books. Toni Morrison's The Big Box,... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2010 BOOKS, CULTURE

Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps: Popo and Fifina