tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post5227794551974063303..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Of Children's Books and Dead Whales: Kathleen JonesKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-61242277835253183982016-04-05T17:45:22.094+01:002016-04-05T17:45:22.094+01:00Thanks everyone! I hadn't really thought abou...Thanks everyone! I hadn't really thought about all this until I saw how much junk these two little grandchildren generate. Do kids need more than books to enjoy the stories? Do we need to consume the planet and pollute it the way we are doing, producing things that people really don't need at all? I want authors to earn a decent living, so it's a dilemma.Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-57045149971479705112016-04-05T17:25:26.799+01:002016-04-05T17:25:26.799+01:00Lovely to hear your granddaughter is following in ...Lovely to hear your granddaughter is following in your footsteps! I think merch is quite nice for kids engaging with favourite characters. Heartbreaking about the whales. I feel sure a lot of the plastic in the sea is from plastic bottles of water, and there are huge numbers of them chucked off ships, thrown away at festivals world-wide, etc which could be recycled. Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-73204532480105578962016-04-05T11:32:27.434+01:002016-04-05T11:32:27.434+01:00A thought-provoking blog, Kathleen. You'll nev...A thought-provoking blog, Kathleen. You'll never stop the hucksterscynically fouling everything up. That's where I missed out, I think. No plastic Hares with waggly ears, no tiny medieval harps for Joslin de Lay, no Mickey Mouse gasmasks for Freddy. I might have been stratospheric by now! Wonderful about your granddaughter. And great to see the name of Simon Cheshire, once of this parish, appearing on our blogspot again. Great short story writer, great children's novelist, great critic, brilliant sense of humourDennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08003209263201885118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-28326497576351560332016-04-05T08:16:43.079+01:002016-04-05T08:16:43.079+01:00I hadn't thought of any of this. What a minefi...I hadn't thought of any of this. What a minefield. Love the sound of the book and congratulations to your Granddaughter on winning the competition. I'm impressed Wendy H. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04022089775887274043noreply@blogger.com