As Gertrude Stein might have said-a book is a book is a book, and writing is perhaps even more of an agonizing process of distillation when it's for children. Without giving the matter any great thought, I had always regarded writing for children as a lesser form of creativity-quite untrue, of course. At that time I had been a part-time writer for about ten years, following a common progression in those days: short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, radio plays, plus a few short plays for television, I thought it was a good year if I sold one piece in ten. I wrote my first children's book in 1957 and it came about largely by accident.
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