A meeting of men

Lewis, Clive S. The Chronicles of Narnia. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

On Three Ways of Writing for Childrenˆ

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Once in a hotel dining-room I said, rather too loudly, “I loathe prunes.” “So do I,” came an unexpected six-year-old voice from another table. Sympathy was instantaneous. Neither of us thought it funny. We both knew that prunes are far too nasty to be funny. That is the proper meeting between man and child as independent personalities. Of the far higher and more difficult relations between child and parent or child and teacher, I say nothing.