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"Deep As A Giant" : An Experiment In Children's Language (1938), Claudia Lewis
"Deep As A Giant" : An Experiment In Children's Language (1938), Claudia Lewis
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Claudia Lewis shares with the reader the delightful and surprising ways in which her class of four and five-year-olds describe the world around them. They refreshingly bypass grown-up cliches with their own version of description: "Easy as drinking water," "fast as you see yourself in the mirror," "flat as a necktie." Although written in 1938, the reader can easily "hear" the same wondrous language in young children today.