![]() ![]() Somehow, everyone thought the family doctor was the only one would could be consulted, so Chukovsky wound up on a train in the middle of the night with that poor kid, age like four or something, sick and moaning. ![]() ![]() It’s like cops planting weed in people’s cars.)Ĭhukovsky’s backstory is pleasant. ![]() (Of course, like with everything else, you can carry whatever point you like into his books and then pretend you found it there. His stuff is a lot like Green Eggs and Ham: about that long rhymes bouncing around like popcorn no real point in sight. Number of supremo-supremo classic children’s books to his credit: ten or twelve. Same deal as ours, except his hot decade wasn’t the fifties it was the twenties. Seuss? Does Thailand? ’Cuz if they do, I need to know about it. One wants to know: Does Botswana have a Dr. Consequently, if I’m in a used bookstore and I see a book called Thai Children’s Poetry or Setswana Children’s Poetry or Inuit Children’s Poetry, I pretty much buy it on contact. She doesn’t care whether what you’re doing “serves as a useful critique.” She wants it to be good. The minute you bring a six-year-old into the picture, though, everything changes. Or it can “bear witness.” Being good-actually good-is even considered a little passé. My teacher’s point was that art made in the modern world is under scarcely any obligation to be good. I was taught this concept in connection to medieval lyric poetry. Let me tell you something about children’s poetry: people tend to create it for the right reasons. ![]()
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