New Envoy’s Old Advice for Children: Read More

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Katherine Paterson, the children’s novelist who will be appointed the national ambassador for young people’s literature on Tuesday, often assures aspiring writers that she showed little apparent talent as a child.

On visits to schools and libraries, Ms. Paterson, a two-time winner of both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, frequently recites her first published work, a poem that appeared in her school newspaper in Shanghai:

Pat pat pat

There is the rat

Where is the cat?

Pat pat pat

Read it all.

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