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Hit with a Waddy

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July–August 2008, no. 303

Hit with a Waddy

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July–August 2008, no. 303

Nation-building, educational imperatives, old-fashioned economics: children’s books get published for a variety of reasons, none of which alone is a guarantee of quality. Ultimately, a picture book’s success or failure comes from within, the interplay of the words and pictures on the page, and children have a wonderful way of reading around the institutional pathways constructed for them by authors and publishers. Why walk next to a wall when you could run along the top?

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