![]() ![]() The education of children is the transformation of an erratic and hedonistic little beast into a creature with a rational method by which to judge the world.Ī child must be taught not to fear monsters but to fear instead electrical outlets, pink slips, poor people, and lack of social acceptance. ![]() Children are not born with these understandings, so to make them understand pain, fear, and loss is no trivial thing. Once a body grows old enough, we are all saddened by the thought of a breakup. Good Children's literature is some of the most difficult literature to write because one must challenge, engage, please, and awe a mind without resorting to archetypes or life experience. ![]() It has been my policy that the best literature for children is not a trifling thing, not a simplification of the adult or a sillier take on the world. Children are first protected from their culture-kept remote and safe-and then they are thrust incongruously into a world that they have been told is unsafe and unsavory and we expected them not to blanch. I think that the failure not only of Children's Literature as a whole, but of our very concept of children and the child's mind is that we think it a crime to challenge and confront that mind. ![]()
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