Word: lobel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, animals and quasi-animals remain a child's earliest modes of transportation to the province of fantasy. Sesame Street, whose pervasive commercialism makes Disney's appear dwarfish, provides a world of tactile monsters; Sendak's night creatures and Arnold Lobel's Homeric tales of friendship between Frog and Toad, Dr. Seuss's Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever, and the omnipresent Snoopy and Woodstock are leaders in a procession that could populate a fleet of arks. Still, if anything appears with a tail or a mane, a small human...
...assume the shapes of trains, or pop up with paper cutouts, can take the place of stories that children need to frame their perceptions of life. "It is vir tually impossible to earn a living at writ ing for children unless you're well estab lished," says Arnold Lobel, 47. "The only people who can still do it are us old guys...