{"id":3199,"date":"2016-11-27T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2016-11-27T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T14:51:39","slug":"the-wisdom-of-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2016\/11\/27\/the-wisdom-of-childrens-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of Children&#8217;s Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2016\/11\/img_1038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3200\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2016\/11\/img_1038-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"img_1038\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2016\/11\/img_1038-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2016\/11\/img_1038-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2016\/11\/img_1038-1024x716.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, Maurice Sendak published WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS WITH JACK AND GUY, a book that took up the\u00a0crisis of homelessness. \u00a0The book never sold well, perhaps because it was marketed to children and had the look of a book for children. \u00a0As Sendak told Stephen Colbert once,\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t write for children. \u00a0I write. \u00a0And someone comes along and says &#8216;That&#8217;s for children.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are all in the dumps<br \/>\nFor diamonds are trumps<br \/>\nThe kittens are gone to St. Paul\u2019s!<br \/>\nThe baby is bit<br \/>\nThe moon\u2019s in a fit<br \/>\nAnd the houses are built<br \/>\nWithout walls<\/p>\n<p>Jack and Guy<br \/>\nWent out in the Rye<br \/>\nAnd they found a little boy<br \/>\nWith one black eye<br \/>\nCome says Jack let\u2019s knock<br \/>\nHim on the head<br \/>\nNo says Guy<br \/>\nLet\u2019s buy him some bread<br \/>\nYou buy one loaf<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019ll buy two<br \/>\nAnd we\u2019ll bring him up<br \/>\nAs other folk do<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In 1993, Maurice Sendak published WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS WITH JACK AND GUY, a book that took up the\u00a0crisis of homelessness. \u00a0The book never sold well, perhaps because it was marketed to children and had the look of a book for children. \u00a0As Sendak told Stephen Colbert once,\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26362,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brothers-grimm","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}