“Nothing matters more (and this is not hyperbole) than the stocking of children’s souls with sound and shapely images—emphatically not to be found in the rambunctious cuteness of the toy store but in the grave beauties of real children’s books. For these accumulated visions and events will someday be the true (if unacknowledged) ground of real action; for example, Wind in the Willows is a civic education.”
