The Sphinx At Dawn Two Stories

Harpercollins Childrens Books. Very Good+. 1989. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 0062505025 . Signed edition. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the author on the half title page. This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued thus without a dust jacket. The front cover of the book has started to tone just a bit. The text pages are clean and bright. "Soon after winning the Newbery Medal for her 1962 "junior novel" A Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle discussed children's books in The New York Times Book Review. The writer of a good children's book, she observed, may need to return to the "intuitive understanding of his own childhood," being childlike although not childish. She claimed, "It's often possible to make demands of a child that couldn't be made of an adult... A child will often understand scientific concepts that would baffle an adult. This is because he can understand with a leap of the imagination that is denied the grown-up who has acquired the little knowledge that is a dangerous thing." Of philosophy, etc. , as well as science, "the child will come to it with an open mind, whereas many adults come closed to an open book. This is one reason so many writers turn to fantasy (which children claim as their own) when they have something important and difficult to say." " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .