Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...dollar is not the only sign. A majority of educators now recognize the value of written works for those ten and under. Knowing what children like and what books best serve to spur their curiosity is a field that is growing in importance. Says Harvard University's Howard Gardner: "The evolution has been tremendous. There is so much material out there that teachers have to have some sense of the world of children's literature...
Clearly, the best of these writers and illustrators apprehend the power of Ingmar Bergman's insight: "All of us collect fortunes when we are children -a fortune of colors, of lights and darkness, of movements, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown...
...province of fantasy. Sesame Street, whose pervasive commercialism makes Disney's appear dwarfish, provides a world of tactile monsters; Sendak's night creatures and Arnold Lobel's Homeric tales of friendship between Frog and Toad, Dr. Seuss's Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever, and the omnipresent Snoopy and Woodstock are leaders in a procession that could populate a fleet of arks. Still, if anything appears with a tail or a mane, a small human is usually waiting in the wings. It is those child-heroes and heroines who become...
...beauty is only scan deep, how can the buyer beware? The best arbiters of children's books are still, as I.B. Singer says, the children who can neither fake a laugh or suppress a snore. It is they who will be formed by the pages they hold in their hands and in their minds. It is they who will decide which books will be read over and over and which will lie neglected until the next garage sale...
...with private references: the bakery of his Brooklyn childhood is the scene of In the Night Kitchen, where another early hero, Oliver Hardy, is hard at work. The child's name is Mickey, in honor of Disney's rodent. The fearful, cheerful creatures in one of his best-known books recall adult visitors almost half a century ago: "They'd say, 'You're so cute I could eat you up.' And I knew if my mother didn't hurry up with the cooking, they probably would. So, on one level at least...