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  title info:
    title: Barking with the big dogs
    sub title: on writing and reading books for children
  name:
    name part: Babbitt, Natalie
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Applegate, Katherine
    role:
      role term: author of introduction.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Nonfiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In this collection of essays and speeches written over the course of four decades, the beloved author of Tuck Everlasting explores what it was like to be a 'little dog' in the literary world, continually being asked to explain her choice to create books for young readers instead of doing something more serious for adults. Assembled by the author before her death, these pieces range far and wide in subject matter, from issues of responsibility when writing for children to the question of whether writers know what they are really saying -- and whether that matters. Babbitt offers incisive commentary on classic children's books as well as contemporary works, and reveals colorful insights into her published books and her own personal creative life. Some of the pieces gathered here were written to be spoken, and some were written to be read, yet in all of them Natalie Babbitt's distinctive voice comes through. It is the same voice we hear in her fiction: straightforward, a little droll, playful about serious things and serious about playful things. On every page, Barking with the Big Dogs exemplifies true reverence for children and an endless engagement with the challenge to write the books that shape them." --
  table of contents: Happy endings? of course, and also joy (1970) -- The child as chimpanzee (1971) -- The great American novel for children-and why not? (1973) -- You must go home again (1978) -- Saying what you think (1981) -- The way we were-and weren't (1985) -- Something has to happen (1985) -- The roots and branches of fantasy (1986) -- Easy does it (1986) -- Metamorphoses (1987) -- A question from Justine (1987) -- The purpose of literature-and who cares? (1989) -- Darkness and light (1990) -- Protecting children's literature (1990) -- Beacons of light (1993) -- finding paths (1999) -- New world, no world (2001) -- We're all mad here.
  note: Natalie Babbitt ; introduction by Katherine Applegate.
  note: "A collection of essays and speeches by Natalie Babbitt"
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text in English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Children's literature, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Children
    topic: Books and reading
  subject:
    topic: Children
    topic: Books and reading
  subject:
    topic: Children's literature, American
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Speeches
  subject:
    topic: PETS / Dogs / General
  classification: PS490 .B43 2018
  classification: 810.9/9282
  identifier: 9780374310400
  identifier: 0374310408
  identifier: 2018002807
  record info:
    record content source: PUL
    record creation date: 180305
    record change date: 20190122114411.0
    record identifier: in00004032659
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng