BiblioFiles #69: "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" by C.S. Lewis

After a brief glimpse into the wondrous, chaotic world of how BiblioFiles episodes are planned, the CenterForLit crew lands on talking about C.S. Lewis’s fabulous essay, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children.” The main questions include: What is the purpose of children’s literature? What is a good story for children? And why should an author of children’s literature set out to write in the first place?

Referenced Works:

– All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan

– Letting Swift River Go by Jane Yolen

– “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” by C.S. Lewis

– The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

– Summer Reading BiblioFiles Episode

– “Cinderella” by the Brothers Grimm (read by Emily Andrews in the Pelican Society)

– “Birches” by Robert Frost

– The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall

– The Worm Ouroboros by Eric Rücker Eddison

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