![]() ![]() ![]() The joint works of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen ( Extra Yarn, Sam And Dave Dig A Hole, The Wolf, The Duck, And The Mouse, the shapes trilogy) are far and away my son's favorite books, but outside of my son announcing, in his 2-year-old voice, "By Mac and Jon," when we reach the title page, he doesn't have a clue who these guys are. Roland Barthes said basically the same thing when he described writing as the moment "the author enters into his own death," and I have to admit he has a point. "They're excited about the book, they don't really care about who you are," he says by phone, "I mean if you're good at reading the story, they'll be like, '. I've seen them turn out at his nighttime book events, standing on their parents' laps in their jammies holding picture books over their heads, and had the sense that this was their version of catching a Nirvana set at Re-Bar, but in all fairness, Mac says, they are there for the story, and not for the author sighting. Kids don't give a flying sausage that Mac Barnett is a best-selling author. ![]()
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