He was right. Kids are immune to trends or marketing. They vote with their feet...
Except that none of the basics of building g a birdhouse apply to building an actual house…
Lots of beginner authors seem to believe this.
Children's writers, and their illustrators, are responsible for the readers of tomorrow. Without them, there would be no adult readers - or writers.
There is nothing inherently less literate, or less "literary" about writing for children. And certain children's books follow us into adulthood. These are the ones that keep on teaching us what it means to be a child, and how to see the world as a child, even when we have left childhood behind us.
Lotta Crabtree (1847 – 1924) was an American actress, entertainer and comedian. Born in New York City to English parents and raised in the gold mining hills outside San Francisco, she first rose to fame as a child performer. #CelebratingWomen