A reading child, as I see it, does not see the world from inside the head of anyone, does not care who is hurt, or who succeeds or fails, because that child, and the adult they will become, knows perfectly well how the story will turn out. The good will be justified and prosper. The evil will come to a bad end, often a gruesome bad end: crushed by a millstone falling from the sky, trundled into the sea in a barrel pierced with nails. There is an (unreal) order of things, which always holds steady. Within that order, the terrible and the extravagant can be admitted.
Blog (& a book) by a mom of a trans* child
About the author: When my 4 year old told me he was a girl inside, I said “Be who you are”. With our love and support she is living authentically for the first time. So am I.
(via powerpussysays)
"The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years."
— Roald Dahl (via bookoasis)
dark, yet beautiful. kinda creepy. i like it, though.
