QotD

[drwex]

Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in changes them and forms them, and they make the future. They make the world we're going to wind up in, the world that will be here when we're gone.

--Neil Gaiman, posted in http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/10/thoughts-on-joining-club-that-would.html

Comments

[tigira.livejournal.com]

Oooooh.

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

That's all very cute and philosophical, but I can't help but notice that Gaiman gets an awful lot of money for what he suggests is an altruistic enterprise aimed at a higher cause.

That doesn't mean that children's fiction isn't important. Just that this may be a case of someone expressing disinterest in cake because they've already had lots.

[mrw42.livejournal.com]

I love this. Sometimes I think about writing children's books for exactly this reason (although I couldn't have said it so well)... As a kid, books shaped my view of the world beyond what I could see in my own neighborhood, and I guess I wish there were more books that would make my kids feel like our family is at least somewhere on the radar in terms of available choices...