Mary-Agnes Taylor (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: Mary-Agnes Taylor, "The Literary Transformation of a Sluggard," in Children's Literature, Vol. 12, 1984, pp. 92-104.
[In the following essay, Taylor discusses how and why various poets change the moral of the "The Grasshopper and the Ant."]
I cannot claim that I learned to read from Dick and Jane; I can, however, say that I remember quite well the first time that I was able to decipher Baby Ray. I can also remember that our class was not allowed to linger with such innocent reading matter....
Source: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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