Of course I wasn’t brave enough to raise my hand and ask my teacher to do this. Somehow I knew that I could understand better if the teacher would rephrase, shorten, or simplify the lesson or problem to be solved. Why? As a schoolboy, I was often overwhelmed by the wordiness of a lesson or the complexity of a problem. Simplicity of expression is one such concept.

Some inside concepts pervade all my books for children, including this one. The inside is a tear, a chuckle, a flutter of the heart, or perhaps a haunting memory of a long-ago emotion or insight that persists, reaching back into my own childhood. The eruption of a volcano is also sudden, but that which has preceded it has been slow, deliberate and unstoppable. Some outside event may seem to have caused an idea to burst into sudden bloom-but really the seed was planted much earlier and had been growing quietly inside my psyche for a long time.

I hear people say things like: “As I watched the sunset, I suddenly had an idea.” I wish it were that easy for me. This can appear to have happened suddenly. A deep internal emotion may push its way to the top to be framed and put into words, colors or music. The outside may be an intellectual process or a quick, superficial impression that pushes a submerged emotion to the surface.

No doubt, what is outside and what is inside are the basic elements in constructing a story, in creating a painting, or in composing a piece of music. I found that to be a fairly accurate and perceptive assessment. Urn:oclc:45107161 Republisher_date 20131220031637 Republisher_operator Scandate 20131219072622 Scanner child, who wrote to me, asked this question, then went on to tell me that ideas come from both your outside and your inside. Urn:lcp:fromheadtotoe00carl_3:epub:b9dafe39-f525-489b-ad26-7f67e95036a9 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier fromheadtotoe00carl_3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0gt81v8x Invoice 11 Isbn 9780060235161Ġ9553141 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL23277436M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:18:54.153703 Boxid IA1110520 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Edition 1st ed.

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