The Mock Turtle
Claudia RuedaFindings and updates about words, pictures, and myself.
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Summer Books
If today the ability to read is everyone’s portion, still only a few notice what a powerful talisman has thus been put into their hands. - Hermann Hesse
Is it Over?
My summer reading begins with a ten-page article in The Atlantic cla...
Why We Need More Play
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” Attributed to G.B.Shaw
The Dangers of Play
From my book Meet the Smushkins. 2025, Candlewick Press.
In one of my Smushkins books, there is an image showing...
Again, we forgot about the children
From an exhibition of Diane Arbus’ work at the Park Avenue Armory.
Mac Barnett’s most recent book, Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children, has sparked a firestorm. The book is a short collection of essays that argues for something un...
Picture Books: To Be or not To Be Moral?
“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
— The Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The Duchess's quote is a parody of the Victorian tendency to impose moral lessons on children's stories. This is one of Ralph Steadman...
Are we Still Writing for Children?
The trees you planted in childhood have grown too heavy. You cannot bring them along. R.M.Rilke
Maurice Sendak used to say he didn’t write for children, but simply wrote. Most picture book authors would agree. But now that we understand ch...
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I'm a picture book author, New York Times Best Selling Illustrator, educator, and comic strip creator.
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