Bitter Medicine: Nanji

Adult Readers Dept: One thing that authors of children's books seem to share is an enduring reader's affection for the genre. Martini reads contemporary children's literature and often returns to the great classics. "I try to figurethem out," he says. Publishers recognize that adults are also reading, and buying, titles written for young readers. According to sales figures, children's literature ranks among the only genre thriving through the latest recession. Martini doesn't know why so many adults are drawn to kids' books, but he suspects parents enjoy sharing the stories with their children. "My youngest daughter introduced me to Harry Potter," he says. "It is a great way to have a conversation.", according to Calgary Herald. L i ke M a r t i n i , S h e n a a z Nanji started writing children's books to fill what she perceived to be a gap in the canon. Instead of an imagined world, though, Nanji's work mines the reality of her background and family history. the priority of these memories in his writing. "My own childhood doesn't necessarily have precedence anymore," he says. In a sense, having children refreshed his source of material to draw from. Although he writes in several different genres for varying audiences, Martini derives a different kind of pleasure in writing for children than he does penning work for adult readers. Bitter Medicine, for example, required Martini to persevere through heavy material. But writing The Crow Chronicles was a treat. "I raced to the computer every day,"Martini says. "When you write for kids you tap into, recollect and embrace a sense of imagination that isn't valued as an adult. A sense of abandonment to an imagined world." As reported in the news.
@t calgary herald, crow chronicles