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Finding just the right art for the issue was its own adventure. Deputy art director MARTI GOLON was looking for someone to paint Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget, for example, when she chanced on a portrait in an illustration annual. She knew the artist, ETIENNE DELESSERT, as a children's book illustrator and thought, "Wow, this is a perfect solution." She had no idea how perfect. Delessert not only knew Piaget but had worked with him. Delessert sent along a photo of the two collaborating on a book, which we couldn't resist reproducing here. You will find other remarkable...
...Mouse Was Hit on the Head by a Stone and So Discovered the World (Doubleday; $5.95) is an effort by the renowned Swiss educational philosopher Jean Piaget. In a chesty preface, he explains that he worked with Illustrator Etienne Delessert, as well as "a good psychologist" and 23 children, aged five and six, who were asked to approve or disapprove every line of the story as it went along. The children, Piaget reports, were "keenly interested" and "sometimes even laughed a lot." Perhaps How the Mouse etc. loses in translation. In English, anyway, it simply suggests what Piaget-the foremost...
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