![]() ![]() ![]() Muth just can't seem to get the wise panda bear out of his mind. Muth Genre : Picture Book Book type : Fiction Publisher : Scholastic Inc. He expected to resist what he calls the "culture of sequels." But while visiting his grandmother, he bumped up against an idea that could best be handled by Stillwater, who "seemed to be standing over there waving at me." Stillwater has now starred in three books - and counting. Muth never intended to write a second Stillwater book. "When I finished reading it," Muth recalls, "I thought, 'I really want to give the tools that are in this story, the wisdom that is in this story, but I don't want him to have to wait until he can understand czarist Russia.' So I sat down and decided to write it for kids - and for myself." Muth's first children's book, The Three Questions, was based on a story by Leo Tolstoy - his favorite writer - and written directly to his son. After working in Japan for a while, he turned his attention to books that would speak directly to young children. "I really wanted to start talking about different things than comic books had the room for at that time," Muth explains. ![]() Muth worked in comics for 20 years before he started writing children's books he was first inspired to start writing for a young audience after the birth of his son. "I think that children are completely capable of intuiting wisdom as readily as adults are," Muth says."They just don't have the verbal ability to put it into words." ![]()
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