Do you remember your first favorite book?
My first real favorite: the fairy-tale The Golden Ball.
Today I looked up the author and discovered he’s still alive: a scholar, professor, and author of academic works on totalitarianism, information policy, and hybrid wars. I may never read those. But I will absolutely reread the first book I ever loved.
There’s something very moving about smart, busy, serious people who still choose to write for children.
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> There’s something very moving about smart, busy, serious people who still choose to write for children
Some of the best writing is produced this way. Margaret Mahy, Maurice Gee, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Dr Suess, and so many other great writers of children's and young adults' fiction all fit this description.
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One of favourite example is Michael Ende. Best known (if at all) as the author of The Neverending Story, the novel on which the movie and its first sequel were based.
But also the author of a fantastic work of rebel fantasy called Momo. About a young girl living free in a ruined amphitheatre who's a very skilled listener, and her attempts to thwart The Men in Grey from the "Timesavings Bank".
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