{"id":49,"date":"2007-09-06T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/2007\/09\/06\/childrens-writers\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T14:30:51","slug":"childrens-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Children’s Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided that people who write for children and young adults are an extremely intelligent bunch.<\/p>\n

I’m reading my new issue of The Horn Book Magazine, <\/em>and this month it’s got many short essays by children’s writers on gender issues.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m struck afresh by how brilliant these people are.<\/p>\n

There was an interview with Jon Scieszka.\u00c2\u00a0 The man is wonderfully funny, and his books are full of boyish pranks (no surprise to learn he’s from a family of all boys).\u00c2\u00a0 But how amazingly insightful he is as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Part of why I love reading Horn Book Magazine <\/em>is that big issues are dealt with in a thought-provoking, powerful way.<\/p>\n

Then I realize it’s not the first time I’ve heard wisdom from children’s writers.\u00c2\u00a0 Susan Patron’s Newbery Acceptance Speech.\u00c2\u00a0 David Wiesner’s Caldecott Acceptance Speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, every single author I heard speak at ALA–and for the Printz Awards, even the Honor winners had to speak.\u00c2\u00a0 Then there’s John and Hank Green’s Brotherhood 2.0 site–full of tremendously clever, tremendously funny, nerdy humor.<\/p>\n

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that people who can express profound truths through fiction also turn out to be deep thinkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided that people who write for children and young adults are an extremely intelligent bunch. I’m reading my new issue of The Horn Book Magazine, and this month it’s got many short essays by children’s writers on gender issues.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m struck afresh by how brilliant these people are. There was an interview with Jon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ya-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}