Winnipeg-born author Jon Klassen wins nearly $750K Swedish prize for children's literature
Jon Klassen, the Winnipeg-born children's book author and illustrator of I Want My Hat Back, has won a Swedish book prize worth nearly $750,000.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jon-klassen-astrid-lindgren-award-childrens-literature-9.7167120?cmp=rss

Winnipeg-born author Jon Klassen wins nearly $750K Swedish prize for children's literature
Jon Klassen, the Winnipeg-born children's book author and illustrator of I Want My Hat Back, has won a Swedish book prize worth nearly $750,000.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jon-klassen-astrid-lindgren-award-childrens-literature-9.7167120?cmp=rss

Winnipeg-born author Jon Klassen wins nearly $750K Swedish prize for children's literature
Jon Klassen, the Winnipeg-born children's book author and illustrator of I Want My Hat Back, has won a Swedish book prize worth nearly $750,000.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jon-klassen-astrid-lindgren-award-childrens-literature-9.7167120?cmp=rss

Mark Hiscock's travels with his dog inspired a children's book. After his death, his wife has completed it
In the months following the death of her late husband, Mark Hiscock, Kelly Traverse worked to complete and publish Dory the Doodle: Backpacking in Newfoundland, a children's book written by Hiscock and completed by Traverse.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/traverse-hiscock-dory-book-9.7156870?cmp=rss

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)

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Damn, does any modern writer go harder than Daniel Handler?!

The three of us stood there for a minute. I don’t know what Stew was thinking, and the filing cabinet wasn’t thinking anything. But I was thinking, is this the world? Is this really the place in which you’ve ended up, Snicket? It was a question that struck me, as it might strike you, when something ridiculous was going on, or something sad. I wondered if this was really where I should be, or if there was another world someplace, less ridiculous and less sad. But I never knew the answer to the question. Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would see another world when I died, which I was in no hurry to do. In the meantime I knew only the world I was in. In the meantime I was stuck in this police station, doing something so ridiculous it felt sad, and feeling so sad that it was ridiculous. The world of the police station, the world of Stain’d-by-the-Sea and all of the wrong questions I was asking, was the only world I could see.
— "When Did You See Her Last?" - All The Wrong Questions no.2 - Lemony Snicket / Art by Seth

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Thrilled to have Pedro Martín, Newbery-honored #author of Mexikid, on campus! #childrensliterature #kidslit