![]() ![]() Great children’s writers never forget their dual audience. Pat the Bunny is like this: flat, rote, simplistic-cheaply exciting for the toddler, who is happy to know what’s coming next and how everything is going to end, but a source of excruciating boredom for the parent. Toddlers are strong-willed they will choose the books they want to read, and the parent has to comply at pain of tantrum. This is secondary but, for the continued sanity of the reader-parent, of great importance. But he must also entertain, educate, stimulate the imagination of, etc., the parent. First, he must entertain, educate, stimulate the imagination of, etc., the child. ![]() The children’s author has a monumental task. But for the parent, who unwraps the birthday presents and stacks the mounting pile of Carle books on the nursery shelf, it increasingly comes off as fraudulent-a venal, decades-long coasting on a couple of successes.Īnyone who thinks that writing a good book for a 2-year-old is easier than writing a good book for a 32-year-old is deluded. This might not be a problem for children, who are typically more interested in Carle’s pictures than his stories. ![]()
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