Why I Don't Write Children's Literature : : (And Other Stories)

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Call Number: 814.54 So
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"Gary Soto is a poet and, in a previous writing life, an author of children's literature. Moreover, he is an essayist whose works have been celebrated for their openness and vivid image-making. In this volume, the poet again offers prose that is robust, confessional, and peculiar in its observations. Soto's world is quirky, here captured in a series of bite-sized narratives full of humor and insight. He befriends daffodils, praises theater and tribute bands, and snuggles up with his wife of almost forty years. Like many boomers, he laments his sense of failure. LIke them, he shrugs off that failure to recast his remaining years"--Back cover.

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Little Shorties submitted by unknown on June 21, 2015, 12:50pm Gary Soto has a fascinating title for his latest book of short (very short from 1 paragraph to 3 or 4 pages) stories and I never did find any story about why he didn't write kiddies' lit. However, I did have several funny stories and some thoughtful ones, My favorite two stories are "NAPS" and "THIRTEEN STEREOTYPES ABOUT POETS". My only criticism is I wish there was an index so if I wished to find something I'd previously read, I wouldn't have to page each and every page to find it Now I'm looking forward to reading some of his other books,