RIS ID
72813
Abstract
Some things are best seen at a distance. In Eric Carle's book Papa Please Get the Moon for Me (1986), a father silently obliges his daughter by building an enormous ladder on top of a mountain. Once captured, the moon slowly fades as its beauty is found to be contingent and relative. Carle introduces young children to different forms of knowledge; experiences constructed between the discoveries of Galileo and Kepler and tuned by the wonders of phenomena behaving badly.
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Publication Details
Ballard, S. (2010). Editorial: Curiosity. Junctures: the journal for thematic dialogue, (13), 7-9.