![]() Sometimes it has some wisdom in it."ĭragonwagon was in her mid-20s when she first published Will It Be Okay?- a time when she says she was much more the child in the story than the adult. "I've always had a healthy respect for the feelings that children have," says Dragonwagon, "so in the story the little girl asks the questions and her mother answers them in a way that is not condescending. That's the title of a 1977 book written by Crescent Dragonwagon - a story told entirely in dialogue between a mother and her child. There are a lot of "what ifs" when you're a kid: "What if a bee stings me?" "What if I forget my lines in the school play?" "What if people don't like me?"Īt the heart of all these questions is a desire to know: "Will it be okay?" ![]() "Will it be okay?" "Yes, it will." At left, a page from the 1977 edition of Crescent Dragonwagon's Will it Be Okay? illustrated by Ben Shecter, and, at right, the same page from the 2022 edition, illustrated by Jessica Love.īen Shecter / HarperCollins / Jessica Love / Cameron + Company ![]()
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