Alison Lurie: Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter

7

.

Sandburg,

Rootabaga Country

, p. 9.

8

.

Ibid., p. 37.

9

.

Yolen, “The River Maid,” p. 131.

1

.

Opie,

The People in the Playground

, p. 15.

2

.

Ibid., p. vii

3

.

Ibid., p. 25.

4

.

Ibid., p. 183.

5

.

Ibid., p. 57.

6

.

Ibid., p. 22.

7

.

Ibid., p. 175.

8

.

Ibid., p. 181.

9

.

Ibid., p. 15.

10

.

Ibid., p. 81.

11

.

Ibid., p. 126.

12

.

Ibid., p. 35.

13

.

Ibid., p. 84.

14

.

Ibid., p. 35.

15

.

Ibid., p. 181.

16

.

Ibid., p. 109.

17

.

Ibid., p. 54.

18

.

Ibid., p. 19.

19

.

Ibid., p. 105.

20

.

Ibid., p. 43.

21

.

Professor Thorne uses the verb

lurk

more than once, suggesting—perhaps unconsciously—that unpleasant linguistic and sociological truths tend to lie in wait for the researcher like muggers or predatory beasts.

22

.

Thorne,

Gender Play

, p. 4.

23

.

Ibid., p. 2.

24

.

Ibid.

25

.

Ibid., p. 97.

26

.

Ibid., p. 24.

27

.

Ibid., p. 99.

28

.

Ibid., p. 27.

29

.

Opie,

People in the Playground

, p. 1.

30

.

Thorne,

Gender Play

, p. 18.

31

.

Opie,

People in the Playground

, p. 7.

32

.

Ibid., p. 8.

33

.

Ibid., p. 108.

34

.

Ibid., p. 7.

35

.

Thorne,

Gender Play

, p. 92.

36

.

Opie,

People in the Playground

, p. 9.

37

.

The fact that she chooses this term rather than “borderplay” may be an indication of how serious and perhaps exhausting she considers the interactions of children.

38

.

Thorne,

Gender Play

, p. 64.

39

.

Ibid., p. 66.

40

.

Ibid., p. 72.

41

.

Ibid., p. 74.

42

.

The same magical device is also widely used by children in fortune-telling, after answers to possible questions have been written on its various surfaces.

43

.

Thorne,

Gender Play

, p. 83.

1

.

Opie,

I Saw Esau

, p. 118.

2

.

Ibid., p. 35.

3

.

Ibid., p. 11.

4

.

Ibid., p. 62

5

.

Ibid., p. 58.

6

.

Ibid., p. 26.

7

.

Ibid., p. 146.

8

.

Ibid., p. 95.

9

.

Ibid., p. 153.

10

.

Hall,

The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse

, p. xxiv.

11

.

Ibid., pp. 7–8.

12

.

Ibid., p. 6.

13

.

Ibid., p. 163.

14

.

According to recent research, however, the poem was in fact probably written by Henry Livingston, Jr. See Kirkpatrick, “Whose Jolly Old Elf Is That, Anyway?”

15

.

Hall,

The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse

, pp. 232–33.

16

.

Ibid., p. 165.

17

.

Ibid., p. 262.

18

.

Ibid., p. xxiii.

1

.

This particular rhyme, which has annoyed many children, inspired James Thurber’s now-famous parody in

Fables for Our Time:

Early to rise and early to bed

Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

2

.

This is also true, of course, of illustrations to fairy tales, where it makes more sense: witches and dragons, giants and ogres, belong to the past.

3

.

Arthur Rackham, however, dresses most of his children in the fashions of his own time, the early twentieth century, though the adults seem to have bought their clothes a hundred years earlier. The effect is to suggest that contemporary children, the presumed readers of the verses, have somehow wandered into a much older world.

4

.

The collection was originally published in 1947, without Sendak’s pictures.

5

.

Opie,

I Saw Esau

, p. 85.

6

.

Ibid., p. 47.

7

.

Ibid., p. 48.

8

.

Ibid., p. 45.

1

.

Grimm, “Mother Holle,” p. 134.

2

.

Ibid.

3

.

Brown,

Goodnight Moon

, unpaged.

4

.

Carroll,

Through the Looking-Glass

, p. 262.

5

.

Ruskin,

King of the Golden River

, p. 11.

6

.

Ibid., p. 29.

7

.

Twain,

Tom Sawyer

, p. 121.

8

.

Grahame,

Wind in the Willows

, p. 50.

9

.

Ibid., p. 9.

10

.

Ibid., p. 15.

11

.

Ibid., p. 59.

12

.

Ibid., p. 53.

13

.

Ibid., p. 86.

14

.

Ibid., pp. 82–83.

15

.

Milne,

House at Pooh Corner

, pp. 170–72.

16

.

Burnett,

The Secret Garden

, p. 52.

17

.

Ibid., p. 99.

18

.

Ibid., p. 287.

19

.

Ibid., p. 310.

20

.

Thwaite,

Waiting for the Party

, pp. 75–76.

21

.

White,

Charlotte’s Web

, p. 176.

THE GOOD BAD BOY

1

.

Collodi, Carlo,

The Adventures of Pinocchio, Translated with an introductory Essay and Notes by Nicholoas J. Perella

, Berkeley, University of California Press, p. 109.

2

.

Ibid., p. 109.

3

.

Ibid., p. 349.

4

.

Ibid., p. 389.

5

.

Technically, of course, Pinocchio is a marionette, since he is constructed to be hung from strings rather than, like Punch and Judy, to fit over a human hand.

6

.

In the Disney film, the Fairy merely wears blue, otherwise she is a typical Disney cartoon blonde.

7

.

Collodi,

op. cit

., p. 83.

8

.

Ibid., p. 460.

9

.

Lucas, Ann Lawson. Introduction to

The Adventures of Pinocchio

, New York 1996.

10

.

Lois Kuznets,

When Toys Come Alive

, New Haven, Yale University Press, p. 68.

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