Stories

[serenissima]

When I was in grade school, I said I wanted to be an engineer when I grew up.
When I failed my first electrical engineering class, I settled on computer science instead.
On finding that I do not like to spend my spare time programming, I floundered... and am grasping at biostatistics.

But I always loved children's stories.

Wouldn't it be great to be a children's book writer?

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Authors whose works I'd keep in my library (including but not limited to the following)....
George MacDonald. Andrew Lang. Edith Nesbit. Edward Eager. C.S. Lewis. Ursula LeGuin. Patricia McKillip. Andre Norton. Jane Yolen. Lloyd Alexander. Diana Wynne Jones. Madeleine L'Engle. Robin McKinley.

I vaguely remember a story concerning a young boy who was kept locked in a tower because he was a prince and his uncle wanted to prevent him from succeeding to the throne. He had a fairy godmother who gave him a magic cloak that flew -- he sat on it, like on a flying carpet -- for him to be able to leave the tower from time to time and view his country from up in the air, and a pair of glasses for him to better see the things on the ground, and a pair of silver ears that fit over his own ears for him to hear what was going on down there. He made friends with a magpie.
I don't know who wrote that story.

Comments

[zeeth_kyrah]

My father has that book in his library, and I've read it myself, but I can't recall the title or author either.

[aristeros.livejournal.com]

It's hard to get kiddie books published, but less so if you can illustrate them yourself.