DJVU The Mighty Mississippi by Marion Dane Bauer (Goodreads Author) iphone prewiew how to download macbook

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Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than eighty books for young people, ranging from novelty and picture books through early readers, both fiction and nonfiction, books on writing, and middle-grade and young-adult novels. She has won numerous awards, including several Minnesota Book Awards, a Jane Addams Peace Association Award for RAIN OF FIRE, an American Library Association Newbery Honor Award for ON MY HONOR, a number of state childrens choice awards and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work.She is also the editor of and a contributor to the ground-breaking collection of gay and lesbian short stories, Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence.Marion was one of the founding faculty and the first Faculty Chair for the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing guide, the American Library Association Notable WHATS YOUR STORY? A YOUNG PERSONS GUIDE TO WRITING FICTION, is used by writers of all ages. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages.She has six grandchildren and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her partner and a cavalier King Charles spaniel, Dawn.-------------------------------------INTERVIEW WITH MARION DANE BAUER-------------------------------------Q. What brought you to a career as a writer?A. I seem to have been born with my head full of stories. For almost as far back as I can remember, I used most of my unoccupied moments--even in school when I was supposed to be doing other more important things--to make up stories in my head. I sometimes got a notation on my report card that said, Marion dreams. It was not a compliment. But while the stories I wove occupied my mind in a very satisfying way, they were so complex that I never thought of trying to write them down. I wouldnt have known where to begin. So though I did all kinds of writing through my teen and early adult years--letters, journals, essays, poetry--I didnt begin to gather the craft I needed to write stories until I was in my early thirties. That was also when my last excuse for not taking the time to sit down to do the writing Id so long wanted to do started first grade.Q. And why write for young people?A. Because I get my creative energy in examining young lives, young issues. Most people, when they enter adulthood, leave childhood behind, by which I mean that they forget most of what they know about themselves as children. Of course, the ghosts of childhood still inhabit them, but they deal with them in other forms--problems with parental authority turn into problems with bosses, for instance--and dont keep reaching back to the original source to try to fix it, to make everything come out differently than it did the first time. Most childrens writers, I suspect, are fixers. We return, again and again, usually under the cover of made-up characters, to work things through. I dont know that our childhoods are necessarily more painful than most. Every childhood has pain it, because life has pain in it at every stage. The difference is that we are compelled to keep returning to the source.Q. You write for a wide range of ages. Do you write from a different place in writing for preschoolers than for young adolescents?A. In a picture book or board book, Im always writing from the womb of the family, a place that--while it might be intruded upon by fears, for instance--is still, ultimately, safe and nurturing. Thats what my own early childhood was like, so its easy for me to return to those feelings and to recreate them.When I write for older readers, Im writing from a very different experience. My early adolescence, especially, was a time of deep alienation, mostly from my peers but in some ways from my family as well. And so I write my older stories out of that pain, that longing for connection. A story has to have a problem at its core. No struggle, no
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