Re: Tree as good as Book? (Was Lock Keepers (was Folding Boat then swimming)


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Posted by Rob Boden on June 11, 2007 at 11:42:55 from 88.104.128.10 user humyar.

In Reply to: Re: Tree as good as Book? (Was Lock Keepers (was Folding Boat then swimming) posted by The Other Peter on June 11, 2007 at 09:02:45:

Peter -

I happened to be reading Hugh Brogan's introduction to "Coots in the North & Other Stories" last night, and there is I think the quote you are looking for, on page 10. AR wrote an article on "Books and Children" in 1906, and (quoting HB):
'The article is a protest against bad books for children; for a moment it toys with the idea of protesting against all children's books, on the grounds that a tree, "well and sensibly branched, accessible from the ground, a real climbing tree", is preferable to the best book ever written. But Arthur Ransome does not really believe this.'

What he believes is that a child uses object like a tree to stimulate imaginative play: quoting AR: a child "adopts any material at hand, and weaves for itself a web of imaginative life..."

AR's thinking is more complex than this short excerpt.


Rob



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