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Home / Posts Tagged: Life

Tag Archives: Life

My Book About Me by Dr. Seuss, Roy McKie, and Philip Nel, age 7.

My Book About Me

December 18, 2010Philip NelAutobiography, Childhood, Children's Literature, Publishing, SeussAutobiography, Childhood, Children's Literature, Life, Publishing10 Comments

These days, I don’t talk much about my first book. I wrote it when I was 7 years old, in collaboration with Dr. Seuss and Roy McKie. As you can see, I improved upon their artwork with the aid of stickers from the United Fruit Company (of whose bananas I was then an avid consumer)

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Commonplace Book

November 1, 2010Philip NelCommonplace Book, LanguageCommonplace Book, Language, Life6 Comments

People once kept commonplace books – personal, portable anthologies of favorite quotations. Today, the “Favorite Quotations” section on Facebook offers a brief, public version of the commonplace book. This practice has, I think, mostly faded. At any rate, here are ten quotations that would be in my commonplace book. But, luckily, he kept his wits

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Green Eggs and Ham: A 50-Word Book Turns 50

August 16, 2010Philip NelChildren's Literature, Literacy, Memory, SeussChildren's Literature, Life, Literacy, Memory, Seuss7 Comments

Dr. Seuss‘s Green Eggs and Ham is one of the reasons I do this blog, write books, and am an English professor.  Nearly forty years ago, Green Eggs and Ham — which turns 50 this month — taught me to read.  It also taught me that reading is fun, helping to make me a life-long reader. The

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Mash-up vs. Purple Crayon

July 30, 2010Philip NelAcademe, Advice, Autobiography, Children's Literature, Innovation, PublishingAcademe, Advice, Autobiography, Children's Literature, Crockett Johnson, Innovation, Life, Publishing3 Comments

Different kinds of scholars, different kinds of scholarship. But many paths to success in academia.

Cockney Alphabet

July 24, 2010Philip NelAlphabet, Children's LiteratureAlphabet, Children's Literature, Life

A for horses? B for mutton? C for yourself — it’s the Cockney Alphabet!

Fortunate Failures; or, How I Became a Scholar of Dr. Seuss

July 23, 2010Philip NelAcademe, Advice, Autobiography, Children's Literature, Failure, Opportunism, Publishing, SeussAcademe, Advice, Autobiography, Failure, Life, Opportunism, Publishing, Rowling, Seuss1 Comment

How a failed book proposal launched a career. Mine. Viva failure!

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