Word: kiddingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...gain some sense, courses in "kid lit" are becoming part of the curriculum at most major universities. The adult who was once the main focus of medical and psychological scrutiny now has a competitor. Today, says Historian Philip Aries, "our world is obsessed by the physical, moral and sexual problems of childhood...
...only contemporary "serious" writer to have sought a small audience. Novelists and poets like John Updike, Randall Jarrell, Alison Lurie, John Gardner, Elizabeth Janeway and Ursula Le Guin have produced exemplary children's books. Of course, scholars and artists are not new to the libraries of kid lit. A generation ago, Essayist E.B. White composed his classics Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, and Humorist James Thurber wrote The Thirteen Clocks, just as, a decade before, Oxford Don J.R.R. Tolkien had written The Hobbit, and before him, another Oxonian, Lewis Carroll, had produced the Alice books. But seldom...
...knew if my mother didn't hurry up with the cooking, they probably would. So, on one level at least, you could say that the Wild Things are Jewish relatives." At first those relatives were not encouraging to young Maurice. He remembers being "a miserable kid who excelled neither scholastically nor athletically." But he could draw, and he could read. When he was six, he collaborated on a book with his older brother, and when his big sister gave him books for birthday presents, he found a land as new as the one his Polish immigrant parents had sought...
...than the outside over there. Recently he watched a father carrying his young son in a backpack. The father stopped suddenly and the child bumped his head. "For an instant," the artist remembers, "it looked as if the child were about to cry. Then his head snapped backward, the kid stared at the sky openmouthed, and his face broke into this great goofy grin. I imagined how he felt. He didn't know that what he was looking at was the sky or that the color was called blue. He only knew that it was beautiful. And I thought...
...their minds. Where would baseball be without Goose, hockey without Boom Boom, football without Mean Joe? Common criminals would sound like common criminals were there no Machine Gun, Killer or Mad Dog among them. Not that all gangster names are so picturesque. Nathan Kaplan's monicker was "Kid Dropper" for reasons too awful to contemplate. And Al Capone was known as the Millionaire Gorilla, though it is hard to picture some floozie chucking him under the chin and cooing, "Come on, you big, bad Millionaire Gorilla...