Recently in my Issues in Children’s Literature class, I coined the phrase the “narcissistic reader” in response to the all too common practice of privileging a reader’s opinion without considering what the writer was trying to do/create/convey, etc. & why. The same applies to illustrators. I’ll write more about this later.
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See AllToday is the winter solstice and in search of relevant poems, I looked through A Time for Poetry, compiled by May Hill Arbuthnot, a classic book that I’ve cherished ever since my mother started readin
Last night–we play Scrabble every night–I “wrote” BLOVIATE–for 101 points (we don’t keep score but I couldn’t resist adding up the points because the “b” was on the triple word square!) “Do you know
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