"What did I mean? 'To touch their imaginings and to suggest further imaginings in the realm of a child's reality.' I think I meant that a child's story is only a stepping stone into the world that a real story can open up for him. In some stories you give facts, tools for the child's imagination to go further on. In some stories you give a very young child a form to put his own observations into -- as in The Noisy Books or The Important Book published by Harpers. In some stories you have the luck to charm him into a good story that for a few moments seems real to him. But it is in the child that the story continues and, fusing with memory, can even become part of him. Margaret Wise Brown, "Creative Writing for Very Young Children," The Book of Knowledge Annual, New York, The Grolier Society, 1951, p. 80.
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