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Essays by noted children's authors on writing, memory, moral passion, and themes like home, violence, and heroism in literature for young readers.
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In "Origins of Story," notable writers for children consider how literature, memory, and moral passion serve the writers. Among the seventeen authors represented here are Tom Feelings, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maurice Sendak, Susan Cooper, Sarah Ellis, Katherine Paterson, Jill Paton Walsh, and Virginia Hamilton. These contributing authors reach beyond themselves and their work to discuss vitally important subjects such as home and homelessness, violence and nonviolence, and the nature of heroism. Impl...
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Discussions of violence and nonviolence as themes in children's literature
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Explorations of moral passion, heroism, home, and homelessness
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Discussions of homelessness and suffering mirrored in children's lives
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