From @joannechocolat

Unsolicited #writing advice, no. 1378:

Many would-be authors make the mistake of believing that you "start off" as a children's writer, then "move on" to writing for adults. This is both completely incorrect, and terribly disrespectful to children's authors.

Children have quite different reading needs to adults, which doesn't make them any easier to understand or provide for. That's why writing a great children's book is at least as demanding as writing one for adults.

Children's writers, and their illustrators, are responsible for the readers of tomorrow. Without them, there would be no adult readers - or writers.

There is nothing inherently less literate, or less "literary" about writing for children.

And certain children's books follow us into adulthood. These are the ones that keep on teaching us what it means to be a child, and how to see the world as a child, even when we have left childhood behind us.

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