© Larry Dane Brimner, 2023
Books
Why do you write the books you write?
This is a common question.
First and foremost, I write to entertain and /or to inform myself, to answer those
questions that are nagging at me. I think this is probably true of most writers.
With my fiction, I write to entertain, to embolden, to embrace
children who might feel the same as the characters in my books. I
want them to come away from my books with a sense that they are
who they were meant to be.
With my nonfiction, I write to encourage young people to explore, to
question history, and to think critically. By giving them examples from
our history, I hope to give kids the courage to stand up as others have
done before them--to make the world a better place socially, politically,
and environmentally.
I write the stories of our history so our children will know that mistakes
were made, sometimes horrible mistakes, and they should not be afraid to
face them and to correct them. Never be afraid to confront the mistakes of
the past and work to see that they are not repeated.