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There are now over 320 articles, interviews, and other materials on this site for free individual and non-commercial use. They are provided as a public service. Out of respect for their creators, please follow the terms of use.

To make it easier for you to find the information you want, this page lists the sub-categories into which I have sorted the resources on my site. Each page indexes 10 to 20 articles. Some articles are cross-referenced in more than one place, but if you don't find what you want on the first page you check, try another page, or try the Site Index/Site Search page.

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Something to keep in mind:

The children know. They have always known. But we choose to think otherwise: it hurts to know the children know. If we obfuscate, they will not see. Thus we conspire to keep them from knowing and seeing. And if we insist, then the children, to please us, will make believe they do not know, they do not see. They are remarkable--patient, loving, and all-forgiving. It is a sad comedy: the children knowing and pretending they don't know to protect us from knowing they know.

-- Maurice Sendak, preface to I Dream of Peace (UNICEF, HarperCollins l994). With thanks to Sara Jane Boyer.

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I am making these articles available in the hope that they will be of use to writers, illustrators, and others. By placing them on the Internet neither I nor the other authors whose work I host are relinquishing copyright. However, individuals may print out one copy for personal use.

Please seek permission to reproduce any of these articles for other reasons. Please respect our rights as authors and seek that permission by email. If the article in question is not by me, I will forward your request.

Please note also that not all the articles indexed here are actually on my WWW site. In those cases, permission requests should of course go to the contact person for the site in question.

If you have questions or comments, you can of course contact me.

Harold Underdown

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