Writers of Children's Literature with a Similar Philosophy

Sophie Blackall: Darkness and Optimism in Children’s Storytelling

https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/sophie-blackall-on-design

"Children are very subversive creatures"

-Sophie Blackall

What I have read of her work is beautiful and heart breaking, but there is not a lot of character development (the problem I am wrestling with right now).

The Whale at Coney Island

Maria Popova makes wisdom "of the old-fashioned sort" through experiential children's media in Brain Pickings

https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/maria-popova-cartographer-of-meaning-in-a-digital-world

Neil Gaim on why there is no such thing as “children’s” books

https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/neil-gaiman-on-why-there-is-no