Nick Clark

January 23, 2002

Dear Mr. Pinwater,

I greatly admire your programming on week-end edition with Scott Simon. I am also the founding Director of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art scheduled to open in late 2002 in Amherst, MA [see www.picturebookart.org and I listen with great interest to the segments you do–on numerous occasions you have motivated me to race out to my local bookseller to add to my collection. I do, however, take exception to your referring to the genre as “kid” lit, I think this is demeaning and does an unintentional disservice to a body of literature that is afterall the cornerstone to both our verbal and our visual literacy. I hope you or Mr. Simon will put aside the irrestible opportunity for the “bon mot,” and provide a more complimentary lead-in to what is always an enriching segment. I appreciate your consideration in this matter.

Sincerely,

Nick Clark

H. Nichols B. Clark

Director

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Nick, do you bore everybody, or is it just me? Poor Eric Carle.