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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN AUSTIN TALKING WITH PROFESSORS WHO ARE ALSO AUTHOR, AND NOW WE ARE JOINED BY JULIA MICKENBERG, CO-EDITOR OF THIS BOOK, "TALES...
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FOR LITTLE REBELS? WELL, MY CO-EDITOR AND I, PHIL NELL, WE TRIED TO FIND A BALANCE OF PIECES THAT WOULD REPRESENT WORKS OF LITERATURE CREATED FOR...
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THE COMMUNISM, ECT., THEY EACH HAD A PROGRAM TO WRITE CHIRP'S LITERATURE; IS THAT CORRECT? COORDINATED PROGRAMS? >>
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NOT EXACTLY. IT WAS LESS COORDINATED THAN YOU WOULD THINK. IN MOST CASES, YOU HAD PEOPLE WHO HAPPENED TO BE INVOLVED IN THESE MOVEMENTS WHO GOT INTERESTED...
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YOUR COAT, IS A STORY ABOUT THE DIFFERENT WORKERS WHO MADE A COAT STARTING WITH SHEERING THE SHEEP TO, YOU KNOW, TRANSTRANSPORTING IT TO A FACTORY,...
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| 00:03:57 |
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KNOW. MANY OF THE BOOKS THAT THEY PUBLISHED WERE SCIENCE BOOKS, AND I SAID, WHY ALL THESE SCIENCE BOOKS THAT SEEMS PRETTY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE TRYING...
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ONLYu> >> WE INCLUDED THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF DR. SUESS, WHICH BECAME POPULAR LATER. DR. SUESS I DON'T BELIEVE WAS AFFILIATED WITH ANY POLITICAL MOVEMENT...
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| 00:07:28 |
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THERE. HE WAS AN ART EDITOR. MANY OF THE MOST POPULAR AND WELL-KNOWN CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORS WERE DIRECTLY ACTIVE IN RADICAL MOVEMENTS OR QUITE STHETTIC...
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LOOK AT THE EXAMPLES, PARTICULARLY THE MID-20TH CENTURY, DOES IT SEEM -- IS IT A LITTLE BIT COMICAL OR A LITTLE BIT NAIVE THE WAY THESE ARE SET UP,...
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THEM? >> ABSOLUTELY. WE WERE TRYING TO INCLUDE PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY WANT TO READ. THERE WAS, YOU ANY, THE NICE THING IS WE HAD TONS TO CHOOSE FROM....
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| 00:09:32 |
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DID THEY CALL OUT SOME OF THE LITERATURE AND SAY, HEY, BEWARE, BEWARE? DID YOU FIND EXAMPLES OF THAT? >> I FOUND SOME
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| 00:09:40 |
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EXAMPLES. ONE OF THE THINGS I REALLY FOUND IN MY FIRST BOOK THAT FOCUSED ON MATERIAL THAT WAS FOR, THAT WAS WRITTEN BY RADICAL WRITERS, BUT NOT NECESSARILY...
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| 00:12:31 |
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CULTURAL HISTORY FROM 1865 TO THE PRESENT. I TEACH A COURSE ON THE 1960S. I TEACH A COURSE ON CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND AMERICAN CULTURE. I'M CURRENTLY...
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FROM THE LEFT: TALES FOR LITTLE REBELS," DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A
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RADICAL? >> NO. I THINK I SYMPATHIZE WITH PEOPLE INVOLVED IN RADICAL MOVEMENTS, AND I HAVE A ROMANTIC SENSIBILITY, BUT I DON'T CONSIDER MYSELF A RADICAL....
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