Marion Dane Bauer's Blog, page 45
February 6, 2012
An adult presence in a child's story
When I began writing fiction for young people in the mid-seventies, I had absorbed one of the most basic rules for such books through reading contemporary novels for young people: keep the adults at bay. No comforting–or scolding–adult voices narrating the story as was standard in the 19th century. In fact, few adults allowed on the scene, certainly none solving the kids' problems for them. My protagonists were out there on their own, making their own discoveries, solving their own...
