http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ArielSWinter Posts tagged with 'ArielSWinter' at MetaFilter. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:52:41 -0800 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:52:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/111600/Once%2Dupon%2Da%2Dtime%2Dthere%2Dwas%2Dan%2Delephant%2Dwho%2Ddid%2Dnothing%2Dall%2Dday%2DE%2DE%2DCummings Did you know <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/04/french-ladies-and-awkward-couples.html">James Joyce wrote a children's book</a> (sort of)? <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/04/patricia-highsmith-miranda-panda-is-on.html">Patricia Highsmith wrote one too</a>. So did <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/05/james-baldwin-little-man-little-man.html">James Baldwin</a> (not to be confused with <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/05/other-james-baldwin.html">James Baldwin the children's book author</a>). <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugene-ionesco-story-number-1.html">Eug&#0232;ne Ionesco</a> wrote <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugene-ionesco-story-number-2.html">four</a> stories <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugene-ionesco-story-number-3.html">for</a> young <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugene-ionesco-story-number-4.html">kids</a>. Graham Greene also <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/08/graham-greene-little-train.html">wrote</a> at the <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/08/graham-greene-little-red-fire-engine.html">very</a> least <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/08/graham-greene-little-horse-bus.html">four</a> children's <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/08/graham-greene-little-steamroller.html">books</a> (and <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/08/graham-greene-wrap-up.html">possibly more</a>). Other unlikely children's book authors are <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2011/06/aldous-huxley-crows-of-pearblossom.html">Aldous Huxley</a>, <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2011/09/e-e-cummings-fairy-tales.html">E. E. Cummings</a>, <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/05/chinua-achebe-chike-and-river.html">Chinua Achebe</a> (<a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/05/chinua-achebe-how-leopard-got-his-claws.html">2</a>, <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/05/chinua-achebe-drum.html">3</a>, <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/05/chinua-achebe-flute.html">4</a>), <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2011/12/eleanor-roosevelt-christmas.html">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> and <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2011/05/gertrude-stein-world-is-round.html">Gertrude Stein</a>. Author Ariel S. Winter has written about all these books on his excellent blog <a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/">We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie</a>. On his <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40423298@N08/sets/">Flickr page</a> you can look at scans from these books, sometimes even the whole book. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.111600 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:52:41 -0800 Achebe AldousHuxley ArielSWinter books childrensbooks ChinuaAchebe Cummings EECummings EleanorRoosevelt EugeneIonesco GertrudeStein GrahamGreene Greene Highsmith Huxley illustration Ionesco JamesBaldwin JamesJoyce Joyce literature PatriciaHighsmith Kattullus