Hi, @commonusebooks again. Now switching over to “Arm in Arm” by Remy Charlip, from 1969.
This book is a collection of “connections, endless tales, reiterations, and other echolalia.” What it gets away with—the possibilities that it nests on each and every page—is simply remarkable.
I hope you enjoy, and more soon more soon more soon : )
Happy Saturday! @commonusebooks sharing a last batch of definitions from “A Hole is to Dig” by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak. Another book coming right up!
Hi, this is @commonusebooks . I’ll be sharing pages from old children’s books, starting with “A Hole Is to Dig” by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak, from 1952.
I’ve always been drawn to the creative purity of children’s books—there’s less attachment to what makes sense or doesn’t, there’s more room for risk. The book can be what it needs to be, knowing that children are much more forgiving than adults.
In “A Hole is to Dig,” each sentence is a definition but is also an adage, an aphorism, a poem, a story, a whole world. A hole is to dig. The sun is to tell you it’s every day.
I hope you enjoy these simple truths. More soon : )
