I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.
It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it… - Mac Barnett
It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it…
- Mac Barnett
I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing. - Mac Barnett
I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.
I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models. - Mac Barnett
I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world. - Mac Barnett
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.
Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder. - Mac Barnett
Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.
Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth. - Mac Barnett
Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.
I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to brin… - Mac Barnett
I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to brin…
Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat. - Mac Barnett
Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.
Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us. - Mac Barnett
Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.
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