![]() ![]() Scieszka took a year off from teaching “just to write stuff,” he says. ![]() ![]() I could tell them a Kafka story and they would say ‘Wow! That could really happen!’ The light bulb finally went off and I knew it was all about the storytelling.” Second graders will completely suspend disbelief. He taught at the school for 10 years and it was in a second-grade classroom there, he says, that “I found my true audience. are the perfect qualifications for a first grade assistant!” he jokes. ![]() “Because a pre-med undergrad degree and a writing M.F.A. Of course, nobody wanted it.” He then landed a job teaching elementary school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. at Columbia,” he recalls, “and I was sending out short, funny fiction for adults to magazines like Esquire and the New Yorker. “I was painting apartments and working on my M.F.A. “I love telling the story to kids, and adults, too, when they think there is some magical secret to getting published,” Scieszka says about looking back on how True Story came to be. When the picture book The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Viking), which offers the wolf’s version of the familiar nursery story, hit shelves in 1989, pretty much everything about it broke the mold – the way it sounded, the way it looked, and even the collaboration between its creators, author Jon Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith. ![]()
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