By C.J. Hirschfield
“He is a believer
that picture books can have Swiftian absurdity and untidy endings, and that
‘life is absurd, and kids know that.’”
— San Francisco Chronicle
— San Francisco Chronicle
Before he was a New York Times bestselling author, before more than 1 million
copies of his books were sold in the U.S. and translated into more than 30
languages, and before his two Caldecott Honor–winning books, there was … Fairyland.
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| Young Mac Barnett as Peter Pan with Captain Hook (Edward Hightower) and Major Catastrophe (Carol Becksted) |
Yes, Mac Barnett, the renowned author of 15 children’s books, was a Fairyland Personality when he was a youth. We’re delighted that he will join us for our Turn the Page! children’s book festival on May 19. And we like to think that the
imaginary world he inhaled at our special park inspired his later fiction.
