Upton Sinclair was once called “a man with every gift except humor and silence.” Sinclair devoted his life’s work to criticizing society and politics, but he still found room for fun. At the end, the girl named “I” meets a girl named “you.” 3. The most playful yarn, however, may be The Little Girl named I-an experiment with nouns. The stories include The Old Man Who Said "Why," The Elephant and the Butterfly, and The House that Ate Mosquito Pie. He also wrote four stories for his daughter Nancy, which were published in a 1965 collection called Fairy Tales. Cummings wrote 12 volumes of poetry as well as novels, plays, and essays.
Joyce’s second story, The Cats of Copenhagen, was published in 2012. When the devil finishes, the mayor tosses a cat across the bridge, sealing the deal and leaving Lucifer with a pet. The devil agrees under one condition: He owns the first soul that crosses. In it, a mayor hires the devil to build a bridge. The Cat and the Devil, a riff off a fable, posthumously became Joyce’s first picture book when it was published in the 1960s.
The tales would later be published as children’s books: The Cat and the Devil and The Cats of Copenhagen. In 1936, Joyce mailed two stories to his grandson, Stephen. When he wasn’t doing that, he wrote about cats. James Joyce wrote some of the most influential-and impenetrable-literature of the 20th century. (And if you're interested in what other authors cooked up, visit the blog We Too Were Children, Mr. These literary luminaries quietly tried their hands at writing children’s stories. Sometimes you just want to be a kid again.