![]() Lanky and wired, Barnett recently spearheaded "A Picture Book Manifesto," signed by nearly two dozen other picture book creators and affirming the place of the picture book in modern culture. He is a believer that picture books can have Swiftian absurdity and untidy endings, and that "life is absurd, and kids know that." "I was thinking about how many stories there were about kids having big pets, like 'Clifford the Big Red Dog,' " said Barnett, "and I felt like nobody was telling a story of what it would be like to have a huge pet, and wouldn't that be awful?"īarnett, 29, lives in Oakland and is part of the Bay Area writers' hub, McSweeney's and 826 Valencia. ![]()
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