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It was snowing by the time Lulu’s family arrived at the park, so her parents took them to the museum next door. Lulu sulked and protested: “Don’t want to see the pictures!” so her parents left her sitting on a couch. A winged cherub climbed down from a painting hanging above her and flew Lulu into the winter scene of a Flemish painting, then into other paintings where they splashed in the sea, growled at a tiger, rode a horse, and fell off a cliff. Artists, poets, and writers give us ways of escaping our world, but they also give us ways to understand and appreciate our world, and to give new meaning to it. Perhaps when Lulu left the museum, she was guided by her own art experience to see the winter landscape before her in a new way.

Publication Date

1998

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

City

Montclair

Keywords

art, children, aesthetics, philosophy for children, Gareth B. Matthews

Disciplines

Early Childhood Education | Education | Philosophy

Comments

This review was originally published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 13(4): 1, 1998.

<em>Lulu and the Flying Babies</em> (1988) by Posy Simmonds

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