Children’s Stories
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CARTOONISTS SQUEEZE OUT OUR TRUTHS
I have always loved the great cartoonist, Robert Osborn’s book, Osborn on Leisure. Published in 1956, its drawings tell the story of humanity’s terror of leisure, leading to our getting all bound up like Gulliver with Lilliputian strings until we “speak as fools.” His...
THE WEIRD SCARF GAME
At age three I was enrolled in Detroit's famous Merrill Palmer Nursery School on Ferry Street. I hated it. It was a research center for child behavior in an old mansion that looked like a witch’s den. Fittingly, we were subjected to the game ‘Giants and Fairies.’ When...
INTO THE CLOSET
DANS LE VESTIAIRE I'm not quite ready to leave childhood.At six, I was a talker, laughing easily. Mrs. McDonald reprimanded me."Julie, pay attention to your own arithmetic- don't reach across the aisle.""But Donald is showing me a funny picture he's drawing of a dog...
THE MEDAL
By 12 I must have had some redeeming