![]() ![]() All of these designations hamper what should be the pleasure of just picking up any book that looks intriguing to you.Īre there any particular writers who are categorized as “children’s book authors” who you particularly enjoy? I’m hoping that anybody would feel welcome to this book. I really resist critical designations of this or that literary movement. I tend to resist genre and age group designations. I just personally love the all-ages designation. And I totally understand those kinds of designations from a publisher’s perspective and a librarian’s perspective. I know that for the Knopf Books for Young Readers version, it’s children’s middle grade. But you know, Johannes is a young dog and there are certain things that come through his perspective that resonate with a younger reader.įor the McSweeney’s edition, we’re sending the message that the book is for all ages. I guess the freedom expressed in the book, or that Johannes feels, is very much the freedom I was feeling as a writer. ![]() As I was writing, I thought, “I’m just going to write this exactly as I think it should be written, and not really worry about the audience.” I was so ready to write freely, without having to check facts, or write about technology-just writing from a much more untethered place. I actually didn’t approach this project any differently than writing for adults. ![]() How did you approach writing this book differently than you might a book for adults? ![]()
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