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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand…

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Kornei Chukovsky, leading Russian children’s poet, in his book From Two to Five, describes children’s ā€œwhimsical, elusive thinking—original, picturesque, amusing speech.ā€ "Children two to five are earth’s most inquisitive creatures with questions evoked by the mind’s tireless need to comprehend its surroundings.ā€ I know of no other author who so brilliantly captures children’s own words. I read this book over and over for inspiration.

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