Do Good Children’s Books Writers Need To Be Child-like Themselves?

“Is it possible that the most inspired children’s book writers never grow up? By that I don’t mean that they understand or have special affection or affinity toward children, but that they don’t understand adulthood, and I mean that in the best possible sense. It may be that they haven’t moved responsibly out of childhood the way most of us have, into busy, functional, settled adult life.”

Mike Daisey Takes Stage At Woolly Mammoth… And Listens

“Daisey appeared, greeted with polite applause. Without notes and sounding very abashed, he apologized for roughly a minute. “I’m sorry . . . I failed you,” he said. The apology, not quite as uncomfortable as the cross-examinations that exposed Daisey on the March 16 radio episode of “This American Life,” was met with a hard-to-read silence.”