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Barking with the big dogs : on writing and reading books for children /

"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 d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Babbitt, Natalie (Author)
Other Authors: Applegate, Katherine (author of introduction.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Children's literature, American > History and criticism.
Children > Books and reading.
Children's literature, American.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Speeches.
PETS / Dogs / General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Nonfiction.
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.