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A hole is to dig by ruth krauss6/27/2023 This small book with its celery green cover and whimsical but simple drawings is a must-have for the adult with young children. Unlike many adults that I know, I am continuous with my child self. It is substantially the words of children, the logic of children, the wisdom of children. It was my first and most enduring guide to life, the universe and everything. There is no rhyme, there is no story, there is no blatant attempt to tear at emotion or plant a moral seed - to manipulate the reader.Īfter 'Pat the Bunny', this was my first real book - half a century ago. Others seemed to have been charmed by a phrase or Sendak's drawings and then surmised that it must be for children - for their sheer delight, as a philosophical primer, for their enjoyment, but not for adults. A handful of people hate this book flat out.I suspect but do not know that they never made castles out of their Golden Books or gasped at night as they stared into the night sky and thought about how truly small they were as a speck on the crust of a planet spinning around in the universal equivalent of the back 40 of a single galaxy. I looked at the 1-3 star reviews of Ruth Krauss' book here, at Amazon, Library Thing etc.
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