{"id":7034751,"date":"2026-08-09T06:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/make-believe-the-childrens-bookroom\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T06:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:03:36","slug":"make-believe-the-childrens-bookroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7034751","title":{"rendered":"Make Believe \u2013 The Children’s Bookroom"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Last night I travelled for about 3.5 hours to spend about 25 minutes in An Unlikely Story in Plainville, and a further 15 chatting with my dear librarian friend in the car outside. No, it doesn\u2019t normally take that long to travel from Brookline to Plainville, nor was I supposed to spend so brief a time at Mac Barnett\u2019s book release event for Make Believe<\/a><\/em>. (I knew I needed to go because I\u2019d read an ARC, thank you to the lovely publisher!, and it enthralled me.)<\/p>\n

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Some days, you understand that maybe Odysseus really wasn\u2019t exaggerating all that much.<\/p>\n

As I began to think of leaving home, the skies opened and it rained. Traffic was worse than I\u2019d anticipated, and Ruggles Station was going through so much construction I got lost until helped by a kind missionary for I\u2019m afraid I forget which faith. I missed the first train. I took the second and it was going through an electrical failure so it was fully half an hour late and then it was 7 minutes\u2019 wait to get a cab to the event\u2013 and I got there at 7:20 for a 6:30 event. <\/p>\n

It was still worth it. <\/p>\n

I admit to being terribly biased in Mac Barnett\u2019s favour for a number of reasons. First, he\u2019s been exceptionally kind to both my children, and without knowing us at all. Here is just one personal example: during the lockdown, when he read books on Instagram daily and then weekly with a consistency that lent rhythmic security to a painful time, my daughter wrote to him that her favourite of his books was Count the Monkeys<\/em> but she couldn\u2019t find a copy in stock anywhere. He sent her a signed copy along with a handwritten letter addressing every single point in her original letter. Second, I have read a lot of his reviews (in addition to his books for children) and I think it\u2019s lovely how often he agrees with me without ever having discussed his material with me before writing it down. <\/p>\n

Now, this book has an interesting publication history. When Mac (I can call him by his first name because in my 10 minutes in Plainville, I did get to say, \u201cHi, I\u2019m Deborah Furchtgott\u2013\u201d and he said, \u201cDEBORAH!\u201d so I figure we\u2019re on a first name basis. I subsequently got tongue-tied and handed him a book and letter and that was it.)\u2013 I forgot my opening. Ah, yes: when Mac was speaking with the Italian publisher Terre di Mezzo, Davide proposed that he write a book for adults about writing for children, and publish it first in Italian, with him. <\/p>\n

And this is important. This is important because one of my great, enduring frustrations is how deeply the America world of children\u2019s literature forgets about the rest of the literary world. I do not know\u2013 and I\u2019m not sure we can know\u2013 if we would have this manifesto if it hadn\u2019t been for an Italian publisher, and I think it shows in the ideas. Although deeply imbued in American children\u2019s literature history, Mac is looking at the field with a wide lens on literature, and a very incisive and specific appreciation for the child as an individual.<\/p>\n

You see, this is not the first book by a published adult on writing for children or reading children\u2019s books. Two particular titles come to mind: Joan Aiken\u2019s The Way to Write for Children<\/em> and Katherine Rundell\u2019s Why You Should Read Children\u2019s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise<\/em>. Both are from the UK, and Rundell\u2019s was originally published there in 2019 but will only be made available in the US in September.<\/p>\n

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Why has it taken so long for the US to want to talk about children\u2019s literature as a field? Well, one of the areas where Mac Barnett and I agree is this: the field of children\u2019s literature is not taken very seriously here, in part because children as children<\/em> aren\u2019t taken so seriously. I think that\u2019s a fairly universal truth, mind you, not distinctly American, but I wonder whether the anxiety about molding and educating the child\u2013 such an incomplete creature, a child is, and we must finish it properly\u2013 has a deeper root here. But something Mac Barnett is too nice to say is: I don\u2019t think the average American adult wants to be told they:<\/p>\n

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  1. May not be a good job candidate. (Joan Aiken engages in deeply satisfying visions of having inadequate candidates for \u201cauthor of children\u2019s literature\u201d imprisoned and executed.) <\/li>\n
  2. Aren\u2019t well-read. (Katherine Rundell is so brimful of literary delights you\u2019ve got a choice between being buoyed up on the delicious feast awaiting you or feeling inadequate.)<\/li>\n
  3. Should put themself second, and centre the child. (This is, I would say, the keynote of Mac Barnett\u2019s book.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Like good children\u2019s books, these are slim books, but not easy ones. They challenge you to spend time with them, puzzle things through, rhetorically and logically, and argue with them.<\/p>\n

    What makes this book distinctive from other books about children\u2019s literature? I would say that Katherine Rundell is focused on a defense of good children\u2019s literature as literature<\/em> which is to say: when children\u2019s literature is written well, it has a uniquely brilliant place in the field of literature. Joan Aiken\u2019s book is keenly focused on one job: if<\/em> you are the audience, which is to say, the kind of lunatic who was already going to write a book for kids, she has advice for you on how to do it well. (In my view, the ferocious laser precision of this job and this task means that Joan Aiken\u2019s book is the best of the three.) Mac Barnett\u2019s focus is, I think, on the child as a child and he is advocating for that child\u2019s need for literature as great as any in the world.<\/p>\n

    When Mac makes this case, I am his greatest supporter, but the greatest failure of Make Believe<\/em> is that I don\u2019t always know who he\u2019s speaking to in making this case. Parents? Authors? Librarians? Teachers? Book industry professionals? There\u2019s a lot of us, sometimes wearing multiple hats, and the plea for the child hits differently with each job description.<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s astonishing, and I find it delightfully validating, to feel this uncertainty of audience from Mac because I\u2019ve never<\/em> felt his audience-focus falter in another book. When he\u2019s writing for children, a field where the easiest failure mode, I\u2019m convinced, is being uncertain of your audience as you write, I never feel that he\u2019s not got a child squarely in his mind, listening raptly to the story unfold. Even in his lesser books, I always see the audience. Writing for adults, I feel that sense of audience falter a bit. He\u2019s more confident in talking to children.<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s nice to know he can<\/em> falter on the matter of audience, honestly. <\/p>\n

    What difference would it make, though? How would the plea hit differently? Well, let\u2019s think it through. Mac relates the story of \u201ctwo titans\u201d [Maurice Sendak and Jon Stone, of Sesame Street<\/em> fame] trying to \u201cdetermine what made a good children\u2019s writer,\u201d and they, after hours of debate and discussion, \u201cdecided they didn\u2019t have a clue.\u201d Mac, gleefully assuming an arrogant confidence he evidently doesn\u2019t feel, suggests the following elements: <\/p>\n

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    \u2026 control of language, a sense of rhythm and pace, appreciation of beauty, a knack for character, a strong point of view\u2013 and, on top of all that, the ability to connect with kids. It\u2019s this last skill that\u2019s most mysterious. We know what makes a writer good, but what makes someone good at writing for children?<\/em> (p. 29)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    So, I quickly determine, he\u2019s back where Stone and Sendak left off. We have some criteria, but there\u2019s a frustratingly hard to pin down something<\/em> that lets a child understand the author is on their side. A fascinating story, and one of many Mac includes from his rich understanding of the history and texture of how children\u2019s literature came to be. There is no question: there is no tiny book (under 100 pages!) more densely packed with reverence for the radical history of children\u2019s literature focused on the child audience.<\/p>\n

    Actually, I don\u2019t know how many other books of that nature there are. But my point stands.<\/p>\n

    And yet\u2013 for whom? Well, I\u2019d say in this book we see:<\/p>\n

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    1. Speaking to parents, the plea is not to rush the child to formative books of their choosing. Allow a child room to explore, form taste, and then share the books with them. <\/li>\n
    2. Speaking to teachers and librarians, he\u2019s advocating to allow children the imaginative autonomy to see their experiences reflected in books, to try on other identities in those stories, to experience a range of feelings and adventures, and to experiment with their reading\u2013 and without being pushed to use reading as a constant tonic.<\/li>\n
    3. Speaking to industry professionals, Mac is pressing for a more robust literary debate, aiming towards greater quality. He advocates for considering the roots of our literary forms not to return to a good old day but to find some long-neglected pathways which might lead to fascinating new vistas. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That\u2019s a lot for one small book! I suppose, though I agree with all of these points, that if it were up to me as an editor I\u2019d have suggested sticking with one and pushing it farther. My feeling is that parents are incurably pushy and not to be reasoned with, teachers and librarians are either God\u2019s own angels and don\u2019t need our advocacy, or else in the same camp as parents. I would have said to focus on point three and tease it out more deeply, but my advice is terrible<\/em>, because that\u2019s the single point where both Mac and I, in our times, have come in for the greatest pushback. <\/p>\n

      Mac has a bigger audience, so he gets more and louder. <\/p>\n

      But, Mac, I remember when, back in the day (two years ago), I wrote a piece advocating for better Jewish children\u2019s books<\/a>. I still agree with what I wrote. Even so, it remains the piece on which I have gotten the most resistance: getting published is hard enough, I\u2019m told (correctly), and there aren\u2019t so many Jewish books out there at all (also correct), so we need to root for what there is. The last one is where I balk. Because\u2013 if a book isn\u2019t pleasurable to read with my children, I don\u2019t buy it. Those are library books, I say. You can have whatever you like, all the bad books you want, at the library. I will only buy the pleasurable ones for rereading. <\/p>\n

      I don\u2019t mean nice and pretty. I read them Shirley Hughes\u2019s Ruby in the Ruins<\/em>, which deals with dads with PTSD coming back from WWII while their kids play on bombed out sites in London. It\u2019s a great book! You should read it! So, in my home, and in my experience being exceptionally nosy about picture books in everyone\u2019s lives, children and adults both need and desire a greater density of really good books (and, yes, of course there are variations in quality), and since not everyone spends their life honing their home library to perfection, not a week goes by when I don\u2019t get people asking me for a list of books I could recommend so that they can have, \u201cyou know\u2013 the ones we\u2019ll enjoy reading together? And that are fun to read again and again.\u201d <\/p>\n

      So it\u2019s a pickle. It\u2019s a hard time out there in the book industry, but why let that quench rigorous debate? Hard times can be the best time for growth. And that\u2019s why I\u2019m really glad that children have an advocate in Mac Barnett. Because children matter, and they deserve the best in books, and who better to say that than Mac Barnett? And did he ever do a great job saying that, and letting us see children play and read through his eyes, in this book. <\/p>\n

      Thank you for this slim but intense work\u2013 and? Now go back to writing good books for bad children, Mac Barnett!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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