The Things You Can Read: Mark Twain Penned a Children's Story? Who Knew?

The Things You Can Read welcomes you and thanks you for your readership. We, here at The Things You Can Read, ask your help, if you visit our site regularly, please follow us either via email or Google Friend Connect. Launched on June 7, 2012, our site has already attracted a great deal of attention. One of the goals of the site is to feature reviews of Children's Picture Books, Young Adult novels and Adult Literary Fiction/Nonfiction. A second goal for the blog is to be a resource for teachers of English and writing--with examples of student created writing, writing tips, resource links, and the opportunity to pick the brain of a seasoned English teacher. To spice things up...every now and then, we'll also include random quotes and thoughts on education and life in general, but our ultimate goal is to reach out into the blogosphere and be a "Book Whisperer" and "Writing Whisperer" to children and adults of all ages. Thank you for your readership. Here is to a lifetime filled with reading and writing.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Mark Twain Penned a Children's Story? Who Knew?

We have such a great appreciation for Mark Twain, A.K.A. Samuel Langhorne Clemen, so it was with great interest that we read BrainPickings recent article entitled 10½ Favorite Reads from TED Bookstore 2013. Again, BrainPickings is such a great source of unusual literary information, if you haven't visited them you are really missing out on a great wealth of eclectic literary findings. Here is what they had to say about Mark Twain and his children's story, Advice to Little Girls :

"In 1865, legendary satirist Mark Twain did something unexpected – he penned a children’s story, in which he challenged kids to digest the intelligent humor he was, and still is, known for among his adult audiences. Nearly a century and a half later, beloved Russian children's illustrator Vladimir Radunsky and Brooklyn independent publisher Enchanted Lion (♥) are bringing Advice to Little Girls (public library) to life, envisioned in the style of the scrapbooks and small albums that children of Twain’s era used for doodling and collecting various curious ephemera." BrainPickings

Not available until April, but ipre-order here. Check out other little-known children's books by famous authors of literature for grown-ups, then catch up on last year's TED Bookstore selections.