In a
modern childhood world, populated by Barbie and Harry Potter (not together, of course), schoolkids often know very little about the folktales of their own country and almost nothing about those from other parts of the world.
Seeing all those characters that were the biggest celebrities in my
little childhood world — Little Red Riding Hood, Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, and the Naked Emperor from the Emporer's New Clothes — beating the crap out of everything in the fairytale kingdom in order to regain their fame and fortune was an answer to a prayer I never knew I had asked for; I had to go in for more.
The word from the
early childhood world is that KidsMatter Early Childhood webinars complement the framework's Professional Learning Topics and continuous improvement processes.
I was born and reared in the Ottawa Valley of Ontario, Canada, and
my childhood world was that of a German Lutheran working class in which the «others» were French - speaking Catholics and the Anglo - Scot establishment that ran almost everything.
War entered
my childhood world not with the blasts of rockets and bombs but with my father's footsteps as he walked through the hallway, passing my bedroom toward his.
Roberta Smith of The New York Times compares the white Styrofoam to the Italian alps, nor far from the artist's
childhood world.
The security and serenity of
her childhood world ended abruptly in 1940, when her father died of cancer.