Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Tomie dePaola

In 1998, dePaola told All Things Considered that he hoped to recognize children for all their capabilities. "As a grownup," he said, "I want to give children the credit for everything I can: their courage, their humor, their love, their creative abilities, their abilities to be fair, their abilities to be unfair. But I do wish that we grownups would give children lots of credit for these ephemeral kind of qualities that they have."
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/824244076/tomie-depaola-beloved-childrens-author-and-illustrator-has-died

1 comment:

James Lee Jobe said...

Well said. Even now, far too many people tell children what they're doing wrong, not what they're doing right. Sometimes just learning it's ok to be yourself is a lesson that takes time and encouragement.