I feel for my staff on Saturdays. Every since I got my license and my car, it seems harder to get to work on time as opposed to when I rode the bus. I only had my car for less than a year and my license for a little longer than that. I am not sure why it took so long for me to get the license. Just pure hardheadness I guess. I can be that very much but it is about the strangest things. P., my little sister, knows this very well. She had to deal with it on our cruise when we got into a fight about whether I should take my headphones on a shore excursion. Told you... strangest things to be stubborn about.
I had to hunt down A Very Hungry Caterpillar by Carle today. Not for checkout but to use as an example of what I want my kid's book to look like. One of my staff's spouse was interested in possiblely doing the artwork for it. I wrote it years ago (my story not the AVHC) but have not done much with it. It is a kiplingish Just So Creation story. I've got another brewing in my head but it is meant to be longer and more of a chapter book. A little more Dahl and P.L. Travers... I don't know though. It seems every librarian is an aspiring writer. But then we all are aspiring to something. I don't wish for fame though. Money though is another matter. But I can see myself being the M.C. Hammer of the writing world : ) I have this theory that it is just paper but my student loan people tend to disagree with me. Even though it was through the education that they financed that brought me to this idea. One of the catalogs I get sums it up well with "Think no one knows you exist...try missing a couple of payments" or words to that effect. Good day and aspiring enormous!
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I think that's too totally awesome you've written a children's book. I'D like to do that someday, but I think my books would be for very young children. I'm pretty passionate about teaching children to read; I also like to write, which helps.
I'm a "bear of little brain" though, so that's why I'd rather write for the babies.... ;)
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