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    Mind Games and Other Conversations

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    199 days ago in I Believe in Your Story — Revision Notes · Authority: 29

    Join these conversations: Roger is playing Mind Games with sugary-sweet children’s book titles. Baseball compared to poetry! Alan Gratz muses about the Flitcraft Parable. Do MORE words mean BETTER words? Finding Time to Write.

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    Children's Book Humor

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    200 days ago in A Well-Lit Corner · No authority yet

    Roger Sutton of The Horn Book and Read Roger has started a game: I also have a new game inspired by my allergic reaction to the title of Jerry Spinelli's latest book, Smiles to Go. It got me wondering why children's book titles seem to tolerate more sugar than do books for adults, and that got me thinking about what adult books with children's-book titles would be like. For example, Tuck Everlasting is surely a Jan Karon novel, last in a series, about the picturesque town of Tuck, itself tucked away in the timeless foothills of the Piedmont. And The Chocolate War is by John Le Carre and involves Colombian narco-terrorism. Charlotte's Web? Linda Fairstein thriller about an internet-adept serial killer in stilettos. My favorite from the comments: "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe: a vicious tell-all about the marriage of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor." Hilarious!