The authors that write our children’s books talk about the ones they loved most. You can read the entire article about Anita Silvey’s Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book, but below are some of the highlights. How many have you read? What did you love as a child?
Peter Sis – The Little Prince , by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Jean Craighead George – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Leonard Marcus - Profiles in Courage (Young Readers Edition), by John F. Kennedy
Sherman Alexie – The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats
Maurice Sendak – Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson
Beverly Cleary – The Tailor of Gloucester , by Beatrix Potter
Wendell Minor – Treasure Island , by Robert Louis Stevenson
Thacher Hurd – The Wind in the Willows , by Kenneth Grahame
Eric Rohmann – Charlotte’s Web , by E.B. White
Marc Brown – Where the Wild Things Are , by Maurice Sendak
Eden Ross Lipson – Little House on the Prairie , by Laura Ingalls Wilder
July 29, 2009 at 1:51 pm |
I enjoyed reading this list of authors and their favorites. Thanks for sharing!
August 1, 2009 at 8:44 pm |
Am I the only person in the world who hasn’t read the Little Prince? I need to remedy this situation.
August 4, 2009 at 12:09 pm |
The Little Prince is amazing. Cute list.