More to the story. (Reader at Large).(copious author's notes )(Column)

From: The Horn Book Magazine | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Have you noticed how long the author's note in picture books, especially nonfiction picture books, has gotten these days? Much longer than the main text, in some cases. This might be because picture-book nonfiction is a hot format right now. Caught up in the zeitgeist, authors with at least a hundred pages worth of stuff to say are trying to cram what they can into thirty-two pages. So, like a seven-foot-tall man napping on a loveseat, something is bound to hang over the edge.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Many of these author's notes contain insightful personal ...

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