May 14, 1999
Scary and Soothing: How Picture Books Shape the Mind of a Child
An art historian at Stanford U. deconstructs the aesthetics of the best-selling bedtime stories
Goodnight comb. And goodnight brush. Goodnight nobody. Goodnight mush. Weary parents steeling themselves for their umpteenth reading of Goodnight Moon may be less than enthralled by the book's repetitious language and pictures. (Here's the child's bedroom, here's a close-up of the comb and brush, here's the bedroom
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