| Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules | |
| Editor: | David Sedaris |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Short story collection |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Pub Date: | August 1, 2005 |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 256 pp (first edition, paperback) |
| Isbn: | 0-7432-7612-4 |
| Isbn Note: | (first edition, paperback) |
| Oclc: | 60512891 |
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a 2005 anthology of short stories edited by David Sedaris.[1]
Sedaris published this book in order to support 826NYC, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center in Brooklyn, New York.[2] All of his proceeds, after permission expenses, from Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules will benefit this organization designed to help students ages six to eighteen develop their writing skills through free writing workshops, publishing projects, and one-on-one help with homework and English-language learning. In the book's epilogue, Sarah Vowell describes 826NYC's work.
The book's title references a painting by Adriaen van der Werff.