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Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

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Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grow...more

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I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern children need?” — in other words, with the moral ...more

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For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy rela...more