![]() Instead, the book advocates for children’s writers to be genuine. “Don’t be subversive just to be subversive.” After all, there is a time and a place for fluffy bunnies, too. “Don’t be subversive just to be subversive,” she said. Julie Danielson, one of the book’s three authors, said that when she gives talks on the book, audience members will sometimes remark that they should write more subversively. The best thing about the book is that, while many of the stories are shocking, it’s not a book advocating for shock value. The book delves into many other controversial topics addressed in children’s books as well as some behind the scenes mischief in the lives of the writers themselves, and even a media uproar fondly referred to as “Scrotumgate.” Needless to say, I recommend the book wholeheartedly. The boa constrictor swallows the babies one by one, and the mother hyena dies laughing.” White, responded by telling his editor, “I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a littler of hyenas. Or how about when librarians, teachers, and parents objected to Charlotte’s Web including death, and the author, E.B. The illustration, later published with a blank tombstone.įor example, illustrator Trina Schart Hyman, who had recently been knocked in a Kirkus review, painted a graveyard scene for the picture book Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? that snuck in a headstone with an epitaph for Virginia Kirk.
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