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From: Lbhcove at aol.com <Lbhcove>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:49:40 EDT
Back in the l970's while compiling MORE BOOKS BY MORE PEOPLE: INTERVIEWS WITH SIXTY-FIVE AUTHORS OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, I had the opportunity to meet and become quite friendly with Madeleine and her husband, Hugh Franklin, a friendship that lasted until her death.
I wrote the script for a MEET THE NEWBERY AUTHOR FILMSTRIP, (yes, filmstrip!) narrated by Hugh and produced by Miller-Brody.
Madeleine related that she had a holiday party for her mother when one of her friends told her she must meet John Farrar from Farrar, Straus.
She told me: "At this point in time I was down on publishers, but my friend insisted I set up an appointment to see him He had read my first book, THE SMALL RAIN, liked it, and asked if I had any other manuscripts. I gave him WRINKLE and told him, "Here's a book nobody likes. He read it and two weeks later I signed the contract. The editors told me not be disappointed if it doesn't do well and they were publishing the book because they loved it."
She went on to say: "It's very pleasant to be a small success after along period of of failure."
Madeleine never lost her sense of being who she was...kind, sincere, a very hard worker, and dedicated to her family and to her religion.
"I write for the child in everybody, that part of us that is aware and open and courageous. It's also that part of us that isn't afraid to explore the mythical depths, that vast part of ourselves we know little about and which we often fear because we can't manipulate or control it. That's where art is born."
In the closing of A CIRCLE OF QUIET, she pens: "The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way."
Let's enjoy her work without beating it to death. She didn't.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
AMERICA AT WAR (McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)
_www.simonsays.com_ (http://www.simonsays.com/)
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Received on Tue 22 Jul 2008 08:49:40 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:49:40 EDT
Back in the l970's while compiling MORE BOOKS BY MORE PEOPLE: INTERVIEWS WITH SIXTY-FIVE AUTHORS OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, I had the opportunity to meet and become quite friendly with Madeleine and her husband, Hugh Franklin, a friendship that lasted until her death.
I wrote the script for a MEET THE NEWBERY AUTHOR FILMSTRIP, (yes, filmstrip!) narrated by Hugh and produced by Miller-Brody.
Madeleine related that she had a holiday party for her mother when one of her friends told her she must meet John Farrar from Farrar, Straus.
She told me: "At this point in time I was down on publishers, but my friend insisted I set up an appointment to see him He had read my first book, THE SMALL RAIN, liked it, and asked if I had any other manuscripts. I gave him WRINKLE and told him, "Here's a book nobody likes. He read it and two weeks later I signed the contract. The editors told me not be disappointed if it doesn't do well and they were publishing the book because they loved it."
She went on to say: "It's very pleasant to be a small success after along period of of failure."
Madeleine never lost her sense of being who she was...kind, sincere, a very hard worker, and dedicated to her family and to her religion.
"I write for the child in everybody, that part of us that is aware and open and courageous. It's also that part of us that isn't afraid to explore the mythical depths, that vast part of ourselves we know little about and which we often fear because we can't manipulate or control it. That's where art is born."
In the closing of A CIRCLE OF QUIET, she pens: "The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way."
Let's enjoy her work without beating it to death. She didn't.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
AMERICA AT WAR (McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)
_www.simonsays.com_ (http://www.simonsays.com/)
**************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today.
(http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)
Received on Tue 22 Jul 2008 08:49:40 AM CDT
