Oscar Wilde and Sylvia Plath are not names usually associated with children’s books.
T.S. Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cat
T. S. Eliot, is best known for his Modernist poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Wasteland. But, throughout the 1930s, Eliot wrote a series of poems about cats, under the pen name “Old Possum,” in letters to his godchildren.
In 1939, those letters were collected and published as Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The book was also a childhood favorite of Andrew Lloyd Weber and is the basis for the musical Cats.
Via: weartheoldcoat.com
Virginia Woolf, The Widow and the Parrot
In 1923, Virginia Woolf (who at that time was already an established author) wrote this charming story of kindness, after being solicited by her young nephews to contribute a story to the family’s newspaper The Charleston Bulletin.
Leo Tolstoy, Fables and Fairy Tales
The Russian author is primarily known for writing two of the greatest novels of all time, Anna Karenina and War and Peace. But, Leo loved kids and wrote these fables as text books for a school he set up on his estate for peasant children.
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five short stories by Oscar Wilde, who was inspired to write the book after the birth of his two sons.
Via: comicsbookstories.blogspot.com
