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Word: delessert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caboose Thoughts and Celebrities | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

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