![]() I was proud of my little shelf of self-published books. I honestly don’t remember what the books were about, only that even at the age of five I thought of myself as an author. Sometimes - like my favorite picture books about a hedgehog named Frances who had complex feelings and an annoying younger sister, not unlike my own - I wrote stories in a series. I was writer, publisher, editor, and designer I created the covers, came up with titles, and drew colorful and elaborate illustrations. Christina Baker Kline The Exiles: A Novel Paperback International Edition, Augby Christina Baker Kline (Author) 9,136 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 3 million more titles 13.49 to buy Audiobook 0. ![]() ![]() I don’t recall whether she instructed me to write stories that would fill the entire book or whether it was my own obsessive-compulsive decision, but I planned them carefully so that each story would end on the final page (with “THE END” in block letters for emphasis). CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE: As soon as I was old enough to spell phonetically (at around the age of five, as I recall), my mother started making blank books for me to write in: sheets of typing paper between cardboard covers, hole-punched down one side and held together with string. ![]()
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