children-s-books

The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged!

~Reading a book is like looking through a window!

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it._ _ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children__ book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness_ The present-day would-be George Eliots take up their stories as if with a pair of tongs. They__e embarrassed by them. If they could write novels without stories in them, they would. Sometimes they do. We need stories so much that we__e even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won__ supply them. We all need stories, but children are more frank about it.

Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared, taking Patch with him. Grandmama had cleared away the tea. She found her spectacles and the book. It was Black Beauty. Grandmama kept no modern children's books, and this made common ground for the three of them. She read the terrible chapter where the stable lad lets Beauty get overheated and gives him a cold drink and does not put on his blanket. The story was suited to the day. Even Roger listened entranced. And Deborah, watching her grandmother's calm face and hearing her careful voice reading the sentences, thought how strange it was that Grandmama could turn herself into Beauty with such ease. She was a horse, suffering there with pneumonia in the stable, being saved by the wise coachman.After the reading, cricket was anticlimax, but Deborah must keep her bargain. She kept thinking of Black Beauty writing the book. It showed how good the story was, Grandmama said, because no child had ever yet questioned the practical side of it, or posed the picture of a horse with a pen in its hoof."A modern horse would have a typewriter," thought Deborah, and she began to bowl to Roger, smiling to herself as she did so because of the twentieth-century Beauty clacking with both hoofs at a machine. ("The Pool")

The 2 Perfect Recipes for Rearing & Raising Godly Children are: Stay On Your Knees for Direction & Stand On Your feet as an Example,

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

Be fair. Play hard.

children need love most when they don't deserve it