Wild Things!

by Betsy Bird

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  COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  This book’s subtitle, Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature, is taken from the title of the lecture “The Picture Book as an Act of Mischief” by Patricia Lee Gauch. The lecture was created for the Barbara Elleman Research Library Lecture series at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, and delivered in October 2011. Used by permission of Patricia Lee Gauch and the Eric Carle Museum.

  “Every year. . . ‘Books stink!’”: Used by permission of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. All rights reserved.

  “You must tell. . . bit of truth somewhere”: From The Art of Maurice Sendak by Selma G. Lanes. Copyright © 1980 by Selma G. Lanes. Used by permission of Abrams, New York. All rights reserved.

  “There’s a perception. . . [takes] courage”: Used by permission of Julie Larios.

  “a time when people. . . cutesy-darling place”: Used by permission of the Library of Congress Copyright Office.

  “There Should Not Be Any ‘Should’ in Art”: Used by permission of Elisha Cooper.

  “I recall my maternal. . . f’ing NUTS?!!”: Used by permission of Bob Staake.

  “acts of mischief”: As noted above, this phrase originally appeared in the lecture “The Picture Book as an Act of Mischief” by Patricia Lee Gauch. The lecture was created for the Barbara Elleman Research Library Lecture series at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, and delivered in October 2011. Used by permission of Patricia Lee Gauch and the Eric Carle Museum.

  “[my books] are. . . everything by instinct”: Used by permission of the Atlantic Monthly Group.

  “I am working. . . dies laughing”: Copyright © 1994. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  “Writing the book. . . off it for good”: Copyright © 2001 by Linda Glovich. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  “I remember Charlotte. . . And she did”: Copyright © 2013 by Crescent Dragonwagon, used by permission of Crescent Dragonwagon.

  “I’d read The Pigman . . . something that good”: Used by permission of M. E. Kerr.

  “Sometimes you have. . . tell the truth”: From Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, copyright © 1964 by Louise Fitzhugh, copyright renewed 1992 by Laura Morehead. Used by permission of Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House LLC.

  “quintessential baby butch,” “The thing that shocked. . . regularly for my brothers,” “Her parents’ response. . . tell the truth,’” and “All those years. . . tools for survival”: Reprinted from the January/February 2005 issue of The Horn Book Magazine by permission of The Horn Book, Inc., www.hbook.com.

  “At lunch with Toby. . . delicious revenge”: Reprinted from the July/August 2007 issue of The Horn Book Magazine by permission of The Horn Book, Inc., www.hbook.com.

  “I was sitting. . . amused by this.” Reprinted from the July/August 1986 issue of The Horn Book Magazine by permission of The Horn Book, Inc., www.hbook.com.

  “One of the first. . . in the first place” and “After I came out. . . good about it”: Used by permission of J.H. Trumble.

  “When I was growing up. . . end happily”: Used by permission of Cynthia Leitich Smith (Cynsations blog).

  “What is most incomprehensible. . . that he swears” and “The most poignant. . . loved your book anyway’”: Used by permission of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

  “One of my friends. . . book on our own” and “I think that Judy. . . work and last forever”: U
sed by permission of Marquetta, romance blogger at Love to Read for Fun.

  “When I heard. . . to my gratification”: Used by permission of Philip Pullman.

  “We are of course opposed. . . generation of readers”: Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  “On the one hand. . . Caldecott Medal”: Used by permission of The Horn Book, Inc., www.hbook.com.

  “During my testimony. . . work the other way around!”: Used by permission of Nancy Garden.

  “found a particular. . . morosely into a drink”: Used by permission of Lois Lowry.

  “When I got home. . . Valley of the Shadow’”: Copyright © 1994. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  “I’m very sorry. . . Wilder award”: Used by permission of Peter Sturtevant.

  “I just heard that. . . one word wrong!”: Excerpt from letter to Reginald Allen, January 1971 (p. 564) from Letters of E. B. White, revised edition, originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth and revised and updated by Martha White. Copyright © 2006 by White Literary LLC. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  “It’s another one of those. . . horribly popular”: Used by permission of Leila Roy.

  “I’m getting out. . . music out there”: Used by permission of Jane Yolen.

  All references to Ed Pilkington, including the quotes used, come from “Once Upon a Time,” first printed in the Guardian on November 3, 2006. Used by permission of Guardian News & Media Ltd.

  All references to Amanda Craig, including the quotes used, come from “Celebrities’ Children’s Books,” posted at her website on March 17, 2010. Used by permission of Amanda Craig.

  “I’m not against anyone. . . are getting sidelined”: © Telegraph Media Group Limited 2010.

  “So, welcome, Jay. . . . Go get ’em, kids!”: Used by permission of Jon Scieszka.

  “If people weren’t interested. . . need children’s books”: From Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures & Misadventures in the Realm of Children’s Literature by Selma G. Lanes. Reprinted by permission of David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc. Copyright © 2004 by Selma G. Lanes.

  “One night just about. . . have known better”: Used by permission of Pioneer Girl. Copyright © 2014 South Dakota Historical Society Press. All rights reserved.